Word: trumpeteers
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...hundred years ago this week, a Connecticut Yankee named Ureli Corelli Hill* launched the Philharmonic Society of New York. Impresario Hill, who looked something like a burlesque Irishman, could not find a second trumpet player. But with a dauntless lack of finesse the Philharmonic gave its first program in the gaslit Apollo Rooms on Lower Broadway: Beethoven's Fifth (V for Victory) Symphony, Weber's Oberon Overture and a Gargantuan assortment of operatic arias sung by a lady named Madame Otto. To finance his first season, Ureli Corelli Hill persuaded each man in the orchestra to chip...
...labored under only one peculiar disadvantage that I am aware of, but that one is incalculable. I mean my deafness. This does not endanger the accuracy of my information, I believe, as far as it goes, because I carry a trumpet of remarkable fidelity; an instrument moreover, which seems to exert some winning power, by which I gain more in tete-a-tete than is given to people who hear general conversation. Probably its charm consists in the new feeling of ease and privacy in conversing with a deaf person...
...jazz is a manifestation of human spirit, an art form like poetry or painting. Something that reaches beyond physical limitations and unites souls and minds. A trumpet solo of Frankie Newton tells you what he's like inside. He extracts a bit of himself and holds it out for you to examine. After hearing Frankie for years, you may meet him personally for the first time. Maybe he's like his music, maybe he's not. But there's always a part of him which you know and treasure, which doesn't pass between you in a handshake...
More short cheers, on the order of the trumpet call fight cheer, are needed, according to Drucker, who emphasized the need for a neutral "fight, team, fight" cheer that can be used whether the team is being successful...
...whoever gave you the information for your story must have been moved by a sudden exuberance for dramatization plainly showing that he must be a newcomer. So we take liberty at this time to advise you that what General Hoge is now doing has been done, without drum and trumpet accompaniment, by the Alaska Road Commission for the past 40-odd years; nor has fanfare ever sounded for the Bureau of Public Roads which does exactly the same type of work...