Word: trumpeteering
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...sweet summer evening seems too balmy and starry for whiling away indoors, even to the holiday throngs who have journeyed to attend the theater here. Fortunately they need not choose between pleasures. Night after night, vividly costumed Shakespeare -- preceded by madrigals and heralded by a flag raising and trumpet fanfare from the topmost gables of a Tudor stagehouse -- unfolds beneath an open sky, turning edification into festival...
...close read of his comments considered alongside his record suggests too little defense and only a halfhearted offense. At the end of our session the President invoked his mother's advice: "Do your best, try your hardest." Sadly -- and inexplicably, since there is much he can legitimately trumpet -- for 40 minutes Bush did neither...
...pyrotechnics they provide in these predominantly bright, florid selections from Handel, Scarlatti, Bach and others. Yet the album, like its predecessors, seems an event built as much on personality and packaging as on musical impulses. And the limitations of its formula are exposed by the nature of most soprano-trumpet duets: the nonstop bravura finally becomes a bit wearisome (the Bach album with Perlman comes off better in this respect...
...better off than you were four years ago? The ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE, a liberal Washington think tank, will soon release a detailed analysis of recent census data, and the Democrats can't wait to trumpet the economic findings. For the first time in postwar history, average wages and benefits have declined for four years straight, says the institute. Perhaps worse: wages of college-educated Americans, women and white-collar workers -- whose votes are crucial -- have been declining. Assuming Americans vote their pocketbooks, Democrats stand to gain...
This seven-piece outfit from Manchester succesfully integrates its vocals, guitars, keyboards and drums to produce a harmonious melody with a driving beat. In songs like "Born of Frustration" and "Live a Love of Life," Andy Diagram's trumpet adds a funky brass twist...