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...night last October at New York City's Renaissance-style Racquet & Tennis Club on Park Avenue. It was refined a few days later at a private home and golf club in the posh community of Locust Valley on Long Island's fashionable North Shore. Present: Peter Brant, 31, the handsome, polo-playing stockbroker who was one of Kidder Peabody's top salesmen, and Wall Street Journal Reporter R. Foster Winans, 35, one of the writers of the Journal's "Heard on the Street" column, an influential potpourri of stock-market gossip, tips and analysis. Brant...
...Hastings, Neb. Two months ago, they quietly returned to New England. But the couple never developed a taste for fugitive life, and last week, with Bible in hand, they walked into a Plymouth courtroom to face the consequences of having disobeyed the court. Former Assistant Attorney General Jonathan Brant, who prosecuted the 1978 case, told the judge that had the couple complied with the chemotherapy order, Chad probably would be celebrating his fifth birthday this week...
Veteran Avant-Gardist Brant, 65, has long believed space is as important an element in composition as pitch or time values. In such works as Prevailing Winds (1974), for woodwind quintet, or the orchestral piece Antiphony One (1963), which requires five conductors, he deployed musicians all over the boxes, balconies and aisles of the hall instead of clustering them solely onstage. Greater complexity and expressiveness are his aim. "It's easier on the nervous system to have the music spaced," he says, "because you don't get it in a compact blast-you get it fragmented from different...
...most ambitious formations yet. Many of the performers belonged to a San Francisco trombone choir called the Bay Bones. Reinforcements included the entire trombone sections of the San Francisco and Oakland Symphonies and the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra. One musician came all the way from Florida. Brant's music is fairly frequently played by major ensembles, but he has no illusions about the practicality of a work for 80 trombones. "I think no further than the first performance," he says. "Probably when Berlioz wrote his Requiem, which needs four brass bands, it didn't appear practicable either...
...recent years Brant, who teaches at Bennington College in Vermont, has sought wider spaces for his music than concert halls afford by going outdoors. In 1972 his The Immortal Conflict positioned instrumental groups on various balconies and plazas at Manhattan's Lincoln Center. Traffic noise and a thunderstorm made the results "ludicrous," Brant admits. Undaunted, he merely drew the moral that any bold experimenter would have. "The thunderclap," he says, "showed me the scale that sound would have to be on to be heard...