Brass band from Serbia transcends boundaries

By Rebecca Ostriker

Globe Staff / September 24, 2004

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At a music festival in Berlin last year, an 11-piece brass band took the stage, forming a semicircle of trumpets, horns, and drums. As the applause died down, the black-clad Gypsy musicians launched into a familiar tune, but one a German audience might not have expected: "Hava Nagila," that staple of Jewish weddings, this time with a fluttery Balkan twist, ... (Full Article: 955 Words)