Word: trumpeteering
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...Girgaun district. In this poverty-riddled, proud, resplendent citadel on the seven interwoven islands at India's gateway, the Congress leaders met with settled purpose. Inside their huge Pandal electric fans hummed. They had the unprecedented extravagance to provide chairs for everyone. They opened their meeting with terrific trumpet blasts. A band played Marching Through Georgia. Crowds surged on Gandhi when he arrived in his loincloth, a narrow white scarf around his neck. Twice he lost his glasses. Each time his admirers tried to put them back on for him. Momentarily forgetting nonviolence, he swung his fists to ward...
Greek Orthodox Church officials, believing the perilous voyage of the priests was divinely guided, ordered that their fragile boat be taken overland and placed as a shrine in the waters of the river Jordan, a trumpet's blow from Jericho...
...opera for $822 next season. The box seats eight people and is good for ten performances. This announcement by the San Francisco Opera Company may not trumpet tidings of great joy to U.S. operagoers, but it shows the way the wind is blowing. Opera, most class-conscious and costly of the arts, is out to woo the musical masses, and, like a condescending dowager, is doing it rather badly. Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera will cut the price of next season's orchestra seats (for its subcribers) from $6.50 to $5. The lower-priced Chicago Opera whittled the price...
Died. Bernard ("Bunny") Berigan, 33, veteran trumpet virtuoso, topnotch tooter of the jazz and swing eras; of an intestinal ailment aggravated by trumpeting; in Manhattan. He began as a boy musician, appeared with name bands when he was 18, soloed with Paul Whiteman, Tommy Dorsey, Benny Goodman, organized his own band...
Strictly Instrumental (Harry James; Columbia). A persuasive, iterated phrase, and some neat jiving by the newest top-flight band, serve as background to Harry James's fluttering trumpet, as coy as Mickey Mouse...