Word: brassed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week. Other testimony: > A young OPM economist, Grenville R. Holden, testified that although he had no special knowledge of aluminum production, he passed on aluminum matters. He had a distinct preference for Alcoa, had a hard time explaining why an offer by Detroit's Bohn Aluminum and Brass Corp. to build new capacity was rejected. > Said the chief Alcoa witness, senior Vice President G. R. Gibbons: "No corporation in the U.S. has . . . done more [than Alcoa] . . . in the way of stepping right up and doing what it could for the defense in expending its own money or someone...
Larry Adler buys standard $4.50 harmonicas by the hundreds, blows their brass "reeds" out of tune in no time. He broke a tooth in tootling Maurice Ravel's Bolero for a Columbia record which became a best seller in Europe and the U.S. Composer Ravel, who objected violently to the way some conductors (notably Maestro Toscanini) played his piece, took Larry Adler's drastic treatment of it meekly, asked him simply: "Why don't you play...
Following his graduation in '28, Sully spent a year in Munich as a Sheldon Travelling Fellow; since then he has been teaching German at Harvard. In his home at 18 Mt. Auburn Street, he reads the Old Testament in the original, saves pennies in brass pig toward his record collection, and murders Beethoven and Haydn on the piano which stands in his bedroom beside a bust of Groucho Marx...
...program will be "Pereti Autem", by Mendelssohn; "Glorius Apollo," by Webbe; "Glee: To all you Ladies," by Holst; Brass Music from the tower of the Memorial Church played by members of the Pierian Sodality of 1808; "Turn Musik," by Gabrielli; Elegy, "Come Shepherds, we'll follow the hearse", by Arne: English folk song, "The Turtle Dove", arranged by Vaughan Williams; Two Choruses from Patience, by Sullivan; and "Harvard to the Harvard Team...
...column would be only a series of publicity releases for a group which certainly doesn't need any more attention called to it. Their music has no other function than to sell itself, and beyond its passability on the dance floor there is nothing to it. The blaring brass, thumping drums, and pseudo-terpsichorean antics commonly associated with swing are only a rapidly fading part of the whole popular music field...