I was given a bird’s eye perch at Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin’s funeral in 1995. Jordan’s King Hussein waved high above his head the bloodstained paper bearing the lyrics of the peace song Rabin had sung just before he was assassinated.
If you’ll remember, 76 trombones were supposed to lead the big parade. So we see that “76” is a big number when it comes to music.
Not as big – literally or metaphorically – as “77,” though, which I b.
Tokiyushi “Toshi” Shimada has been in the classical music game a long time. He’s been music director and conductor of the Eastern Connecticut Symphony Orchestra for 14 superb seasons. He has similar r.