Word: brass
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...labeled the book "poison" and summoned Japan's envoy to Beijing for a dressing down, while a text-message campaign urged Chinese to boycott Japanese goods. One of China's largest supermarket chains, Nonggongshang, said its 1,200 stores would no longer stock products from Japanese companies whose top brass are associated with a group sympathetic to the new textbook. Meanwhile, Seoul?where people were already angry that a Japanese prefecture recently claimed a remote rocky islet as its own, even though the Korean coast guard has been patrolling it for 57 years?reacted with similar indignation. Particularly galling...
...review should indicate how rich an arts community is and not how knowledgeable a reporter is about intonation, ensemble, or finer points of brass playing. I ask that future Crimson reporters review concerts with a wider perspective. Your words have consequences, and your publication has a responsibility to the Harvard arts community at large...
...diplomatic, I'll tell you the most fun sections are percussion, lower brass and bass players. They all seem to have good senses of humor and love life. They're sitting in the back of the orchestra, they check out the conductor, the audience. They usually have lots of time to make jokes...
...performers, despite some intonation difficulties in the upper winds, produced a powerful sound, while retaining control. They retuned before the second piece, Johann Sebastian Bach’s “Fantasia in G, BWV 572,” originally written for organ. The richness of the low brass made this atypical arrangement convincing, although anyone seeking to envision it as authentic was jarringly shaken back into the twenty-first century with the crashing cymbal...
Other thimbles feature images of birds, trees and even the biblical ram; all metaphors characteristic of the distinctively earthy Iron & Wine sound. But perhaps the most powerful image is the perfectly ordinary brass thimble, which contrasts ironically with its showy partners. This is Sam Beam, the humble university professor-cum-indie-rockstar who records under the name Iron & Wine...