brass

Since the 1990s, many towns in countries across Europe, including in Germany and Austria, have embedded small brass plaques in the streets in memory of Jews and other victims of Nazi atrocities.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

The invigorating brass or woody bass of salsa, son and cha-cha-cha are all but gone.

From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026

A brass band works down the block and stops at the park outside.

From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026

Sax outdid himself by also designing a trumpet with 13 bells; this instrument, later built by his son Adolphe-Édouard, resembles a brass Hydra.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

And when Elizebeth started appearing in the papers, the top brass got agitated.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield

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

Their sound has a lovely finish: softly molded winds, round-toned brasses, strings that never turn strident.

From New York Times ● Jan. 22, 2024

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

Flutes dipped like swallows, and brasses popped out like goblins.

From New York Times ● Apr. 26, 2023

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

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck