Simply superior: Marching band earns high marks Oct 25, 2008
Instrument cases are scattered all over the place, students still rehearse. Some do that on the run, rushing through the hall of the band room. (Gillette News-Record, WY)
Photomural dedicated to bluegrass program Sep 18, 2008
Those who weren't scared away from their mid-day sushi run by the banjo twang (see: Deliverance, 1972) would have discovered a crowd of around 75 students, many of whom were toting a variety of instrument cases, gathered in front of Memorial Hall. Students, faculty and staff gathered there Wednesday to dedicate the new photomural that commemorated the Bluegrass, Old-Time and Country music department. (East Tennessean, TN)
Their 15 minutes May 10, 2008
Some 500 applicants had turned out for the final two days of the college's pre-admission tryouts in March, filling a campus building with their instrument cases and sheet music, homemade CDs and hopeful, if nervous, chatter about future careers in the music business. At a time of year when local colleges have been making tough decisions on who gets admitted, the Berklee auditions - part "American Idol"-style competition, part traditional college interview - offered a behind-the-scenes glimpse of... (Boston Globe)
In Baghdad, this oasis of grace struggles to keep culture alive Apr 13, 2008
Most leave their violins and flutes at school to avoid attracting the attention of religious militias by carrying instrument cases in the street. That cuts into their practice time, making it difficult to progress, says Ahmed Saleem, who as the school's technical director oversees music and dance education and the 42 arts teachers. (Boston Globe)
Post a comment Feb 28, 2008
I wonder if members of the NY Phil considered tossing a few bananas or walnuts into their instrument cases to help feed the starving millions not invited to the event. I didn t see many people in the audience. (International Herald Tribune)
Sink your teeth into this Feb 8, 2008
The series of rooms they re filling with funk flow into each other like chambers in a cave, stuffed full of books and art-rock posters, shabby old couches and instrument cases. CDs of Gil Scott-Heron s The Revolution Will Not be Televised, Funkadelic s Maggot Brain and Tower of Power s self-titled debut sit next to a pile of vinyl topped by James Brown s Black Caeser soundtrack. (Albany Democrat-Herald, OR)
Jerusalem diaryBlair in Bethlehem, and in Jerusalem a rousing 'Resurrection' Dec 18, 2007
As I careered through discarded instrument cases, I almost ran over a slight figure, dressed in black, who was walking across my path. He smiled broadly, as I mumbled an apology. (BBC News -- Africa)
Petersburg Symphony Orchestra musicians join Chesterfield students for all-county high concert Oct 11, 2007
Young musicians are talking, unpacking instrument cases, finding music, blowing a few notes or bowing and listening carefully to a tuning note, squeezing among crowded folding chairs and music stands to take their places before rehearsal. It's a normal sight in any middle or high school auditorium. (Petersburg Progress Index, VA)
Street performers give a little, get a little Aug 17, 2007
Many buskers around the world earn a living from the coins and bills that are tossed into their hats or instrument cases. Others do it because they need to perform, just as some people need to write or paint or work with numbers. (Juneau Empire)
'Dissonance' attempts to play on the heartstrings Jun 30, 2007
We begin, as we gaze at the empty chairs and open instrument cases of a waiting rehearsal hall, by listening to the tensely clashing first passage of Mozart's C Major Quartet (K. 465), often called the "Dissonance Quartet" because of this very opening. The lights dim. (Boston Globe)
Valley musicians string along with String Shop of Arizona Jun 12, 2007
Instrument cases fill shelves that line practically every available free surface. Being an integral part of the Valley's music scene - everyone is bound to sit on their instruments at some point, McShane jokes - has allowed him to watch the emphasis on the arts ebb and flow over the past two decades. (AZCentral -- News)
A businessman's rise and fall May 14, 2007
In a decade, the company he founded - Poly-Vac - had grown from a kitchen experiment into a leading manufacturer of surgical instrument cases, making him a multimillionaire. Brooks' political star climbed with his fortune. (Concord Monitor)
Musical manufacturer hits a high note with movie Feb 14, 2007
The company started out in 1992 as a manufacturer of musical instrument cases, then outgrew its original 20,000-square-foot building along Roosevelt Boulevard in Clearwater. In November 2004 it bought a 110,000-square-foot warehouse along West Waters Avenue in Tampa from for $4. (Tampa Bay Business Journal, FL)
Anything goes, instrumentally Jan 18, 2007
The Lost and Found orchestra begins with a quintet of men using the instrument cases of cellos and a double bass as hand drums, and ends in deliriously high-decibel fashion with a choir and an orchestra of ingeniously constructed noise-makers. All manner of household and industrial objects are pressed into service. (The Australian)
Trumpeting his custom mouthpieces Jan 3, 2007
Lately, his one-man has begun marketing a line of mutes, instrument cases and valve oil in music stores. Najoom Music also receives orders via his firm's Web site from as far away as Italy, Brazil, Korea, Austria and Japan. (Milwaukee Business Journal, WI)
