The song begins and it immediately registers in your head. The first few notes play and the next three minutes of your life is now booked. You have no choice as you’ll be humming along with a tune ...

They entered to “Brass Bonanza.” Of course, they did. Music is given, but to be a gift, it must be received. And Jacques Ysaye, the composer of the greatest, quirkiest celebration song in sports ...

Mike Rotman has heard the song at sporting events all over the country. Rotman, who grew up in Windsor and lives in Southern California, wears the distinctive blue-and-green of his childhood team when ...

The old white, green and blue sweaters hit the ice, that gorgeous, now world-famous logo donning the front. ‘Brass Bonanza’ blared from the arena loudspeakers. Pucky the Whale roamed the concourses.

It was 17 years this coming Sunday that the Hartford Whalers played their final game. A month later, they were officially on their way to Raleigh, North Carolina and NHL hockey was gone, likely to ...

Perhaps a moniker for the arrogance of the NHL in the days before the lockout, the “Brass Bonanza” was actually the fight song of the erstwhile Hartford Whalers. For the diminutive selection of fans ...

When I was in college and first heard New Orleans brass-band music, I dug it, though I think what first grabbed me was the debut album by Lester Bowie’s Brass ...