For this brass band, almost anything goes From: The Boston Globe | Date: February 28, 1992| Author: Fernando Gonzalez, Globe Staff | Copyright 1992 The Boston Globe. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

Les Miserables Brass Band defines its music simply: from Macedonia to Motown.

It's a big world out there and most of it plays some form of brass music, and so the group fearlessly tackles gospel music and Bolivian marches; Balkan rhythms and Mexican waltzes; tangos, polkas and Pakistani music. Then, for good measure, they add an original composition or arrangements of Ellington or Jimi Hendrix.

It's a "why not?" approach that has proven remarkably successful.

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