"Wind ensemble is a medium that has a long, long history of patriotic and marching-band music, " Mr. Fairouz said.
The project is called New Music 20x12 which covers a wide range of genres from contemporary classical, folk and opera in Scotland and Northern Ireland to bell ringing, beat boxing, jazz and brass band music in England and Wales.
If a full-fledged media blackout isn't feasible, then at least limit yourself to the stations that are least likely to air anything having to do with modern times: the radio stations that play big band music and old-timey radio programs.
The evening will feature performances by the Marine Corps Band and music legend Gladys Knight.
They often set up elaborate live concerts with their own background band playing music.
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Brian Eno leapt to fame in the 1970s band Roxy Music which he co-founded with Brian Ferry.
Only dogs were invited because the band played music on such a high frequency, only they could hear.
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He's been singing the occasional Dylan cover since 1973, when he was lead singer of the synth-pop band Roxy Music.
He was an expert on this particular band and music from that era so I asked him to read my paper.
As well as hearing from members of the band, the documentary also hears from those who signed and worked with the band, music experts and relatives - including a certain 'perfect cousin'.
NPR's Bob Edwards and band leader David Byrne look back at the band and the music.
In 2001, guitarist Anton Goudsmit organized a band to perform music commissioned by Dutch national radio.
Peart's lyrics are a major reason fans cite interest in the band's music, he said.
Abe says 10, 000 fans have joined their website so they can hear the band's music online.
But now he sees his band's music as a complement to the fans' adult lives.
Apart from a few appearances with Zappa in the mid-1970s, life after the band involved little music.
The business of major labels can destroy a band before its music even has a chance to be heard.
At the Chicago Symphony Center, the repertoire includes newly commissioned pieces from within the band, plus music by John Coltrane.
He featured on three tracks of their next recording but quit after becoming dissatisfied with the direction of the band's music.
The event will use the band's music and Curtis' story-telling to form "a collective hallucination", Massive Attack's Robert Del Naja said.
It came at the height of Beatlemania and the band's music was famously drowned out by the screams of the 55, 000-strong crowd.
The band dedicated the music to the late trumpeter Freddie Hubbard.
It was that 1987 album that not only launched U2 into supergroup status but also signaled a change in the band's music style.
Oh, and there's this: You can't get any of the band's music on iTunes, save for a few songs from charity and soundtrack albums.
The band laced its music with a heavy dose of good humor to complement the intricate musicianship, but could never move beyond cult status internationally.
In the pop pantheon the Beatles are gods and a true review of this compilation album is impossible because the band and their music seem beyond criticism.
The band makes its music with a looping software program, created by guitarist and keyboardist Brent Knopf while in college, called Deeler, short for Digital Loop Recorder.
Like many others in Finnish jazz, the band uses the music as a jumping-off point into experimentation that can range from the raucous to the moodily introspective.
The 1984 film, This is Spinal Tap, is an American rock and roll mock documentary about about the heavy metal music band, Spinal Tap - "one of England's loudest bands".
Sponsorship can lead to musicians wearing a company's clothes and naming songs after it: Rascall Flatts, a country music band, has done both for American Living, a label carried by JCPenney.
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