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Senators from both parties entered in procession behind Tim Scott, Graham's fellow South Carolina Republican, as a US Army brass quintet played "Amazing Grace" and "America the Beautiful."

From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026

On Wilkins’ program, Valerie Coleman’s dark “Fanfare for Uncommon Times” brought a listener inside brass and percussion.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2026

The event started with the Crown of Scotland being escorted down the Royal Mile from Edinburgh Castle before the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland brass ensemble performed a fanfare in the debating chamber.

From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026

It features “a brass barrel and decorative lockplate, with an additional flourish of silver-wire inlay in a shell pattern.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026

The solution to these problems, once brass valves were perfected, was to add a few valves to the instrument; three is usually enough.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones

Prokofiev’s Fifth Symphony, grandly classical in conception, with dashes of the composer’s wily idiosyncrasies, was played with lush strings and enveloping brasses.

From New York Times ● Jan. 22, 2024

It relies not on computers but on hand-played, largely acoustic instruments: guitars, accordions, brasses, reeds.

From New York Times ● Jun. 22, 2023

In the first two seasons, Britell followed a fairly confined playbook of the eight-chord motif’s different guises: a beating piano similar to that Mozart fantasia, darkly regal strings and brasses.

From New York Times ● May 25, 2023

Corrosive brasses and heated strings enlivened the Respighi’s first movement, and gray-toned woodwinds, transparent violins, and luxuriant cellos and basses colored the second.

From New York Times ● May 5, 2023

The harness was polished and the horse brasses glittered like gold.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck