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Meet the Brass Family | How Brass Instruments Power the Orchestra

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Bold, brilliant, and impossible to ignore, the brass family brings some of the orchestra’s most powerful sounds to life! Join Rick Steves as he meets talented young musicians from the Cincinnati Symphony Youth Orchestra who introduce their brass instruments, demonstrate their unique sounds, and explain how to play them. Discover how buzzing lips, vibrating air, valves, and slides transform a musician’s breath into music.

This video is part of _Symphony in a Suitcase,_ a free classroom curriculum from Rick Steves, CET Public Television, and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra exploring music,...