Word: brass
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...PLEASE Its employees dress in camouflage, but you don't usually think of the U.S. Army as being green. Not until last week, that is, when top brass announced the arrival of an environmentally friendly bullet. It has all the wallop you've come to expect from regular ammo but 100% less lead. Set to be standard issue by 2003, this copper-jacketed killer contains a tungsten core that won't contaminate the water and soil around firing ranges. That way you can leave an unspoiled world for the children of the guy you've just wasted...
...Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, and takes its cues from the tristesse (and orchestrational largesse) of that monster. In the version Strauss sought to depict, it is not a statue-come-to protagonist's own self loathing that brings on the brimstone. You can look forward to otherworldly brass writing and overwrought, saturated textures. For a first course, it is heavy fare...
...last piece on tonight's program is Walter Piston's Third Symphony, a warm, polished, slightly reticent work. The HRO's brass section, sometimes dicey, was wonderful here in rehearsal and Yannatos' tough love made its staccato playing even better. The slow turns of the oboe at the outset have an Italianate flavor (Walter's grandfather was named Antonio Pistone) and the tonal language is cosmopolitan: Piston, luckier than most Harvard seniors, won a Paine Traveling Fellowship after graduation. You'll want to listen in the third movement for exuberant music that Dr. Y wants to deliver in "band style...
...makes good; and two, one of the film's final images is of Dad's arm giving Homer's shoulder a paternal blessing as a rocket soars impossibly high into a deep blue sky--a male-weepie moment to rival Field of Dreams' climax. An entire audience of NASA brass and astronauts was reportedly broken up at a preview screening in Washington, although when I checked this out with former astronaut Jim Lovell, the commander of the Apollo 13 mission, he gave me a cagey "not really" when I asked if he had cried. He also said he didn...
Tuesday night is Guest Bartender Night at the Brass Bull! So, if you're in the mood to be served by an amateur (or maybe even serve yourself!), drop by this bar at 199 State Street in Boston. It promises a new face each week! For more info., call...