Twentieth-century orchestral composers certainly followed suit, but despite all the interesting, intricate, and even intimate music that's been written for trumpet over the last century and a half, the trumpet has never lost its age-old character as a signaling instrument, an instrument that can call people to attention in a powerful and dramatic way.

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In today's feverish atmosphere, even business executives and free-market economists, academics and politicos have lost sight of the need to preserve this utterly critical instrument.

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Mr Santorum prefers government to serve as an instrument in the urgent task of remoralising a society that has lost its spiritual moorings.

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