Word: euphonium
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...inspiration further west of their old sonic haunts and finds it in France. The influence is evident, superficially in the pretentious Francophone chatter at the beginning of songs, the French song titles on eight of the album’s 13 tracks, and in the use of accordion and euphonium. The different instruments tonally enrich the tracks, often creating beautiful oceans of sound and offering a refreshing alternative to Beirut’s contemporaries. However, the highlights of the album come when the clamor dies down and frontman Zach Condon is left singing accompanied only by one instrument. The ukulele...
...specialty seems particularly depleted. Seven of the gay soldiers kicked out were musicians. Now the Army says it needs to fill 15 musician slots, including two trumpeters, four clarinetists, three saxophonists and a euphonium player. "Is there not a way to do without the euphonium player?" Representative Vic Snyder asked General Richard Cody, the Army's No. 2 officer. Cody insisted, "Bands are being stressed quite a bit," since they perform at burial services for troops killed in combat as well as for the growing number of World War II veterans passing...
...signed the law creating the Marine Corps in 1798, including "a drum major, a fife major, and 32 drums and fifes." From that day Presidents demanded that the band be on hand to grace their moments of triumph and tragedy. And the band got bigger and better. Recently 35 euphonium players auditioned for one position, and all of them were turned down. Only the best...
Although J. S. Bach did not indicate the instrumentation for his monumental Art of the Fugue, he would no doubt have been surprised to hear his opening fugue played by two trumpets, French horn, euphonium, trombone, and sousaphone. More appropriate to the group, and receiving a better performance, was a group of pieces by Johann Pezel, an early German composer of brass music for town bands. Although it was a pleasure to hear these seldom performed works, the group played with more gusto than polish...
...haired Salvation Army brigadier named Herbert Langdon, who seemed to understand just how he felt. They talked for three hours, and that night the would-be suicide slept there. Last week, with a new job in another city, he celebrated the first anniversary of his reclaimed life, playing the euphonium in an army band...