The Exquisite Risk of Civil War Brass

      
The 1st
Brigade
Band

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Dan Senn


      
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The Exquisite Risk of Civil War Brass is an exploration of the relationship
      between a Union Army reenactment band and its collection of vintage
      Civil War instruments. This piece examines the conscience-raising
      influence that instruments, still at a stage of experimentation
      in the 1850s and 1860s, have on the lives and functioning of
      a contemporary community band from Watertown, Wisconsin. Delves
      into gender and authenticity issues as well as the natural inclination
      to anthropomorphize instruments which resist easy performance.
       All this from a band of extraordinary originality, leadership
      and musicianship.

      
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