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House of Blues. Harvard Square. 491-BLUE. Toni Lynn Washington on Thursday, March 21. Dirty Dozen Brass Band on Tuesday, March...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Around Harvard | 3/17/1994 | See Source »

There is something so tenebrous, so portentous, so downright antagonistic about Alfred Schnittke's music that it is almost a wonder anybody either performs it or listens to it. In Schnittke's dark, Russo-Germanic artistic universe, strings do not soar, they brood; woodwinds do not chirp, they protest; brass does not shine, it glowers. Created in the caldron of Central Europe, his music speaks of epic battles and terrible defeats; it is Kutuzov and Napoleon at Borodino, Von Paulus at Stalingrad. Why, then, is it suddenly so popular...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: The Sound of Russian Fury | 3/14/1994 | See Source »

...definitely on the first: people have been incorporating brass instruments since...

Author: By Steve L. Burt, | Title: Eggs Go Over Easy | 3/10/1994 | See Source »

...would return for a serious pass. As one Little Bird whizzed by, its guns blazing, Bray felt dozens of hot projectiles * striking his body. "I thought I'd had it," he recalled. It took Bray several seconds to realize it was not bullets raining down on him but the brass casings pouring out of the chopper's twin Gatling guns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Amid Disaster, Amazing Valor | 2/28/1994 | See Source »

That's because competing for vice president means not losing to "good guy" Gabay. And it also represents a chance for the candidates to position themselves in the executive hierarchy before reaching for the brass ring next fall...

Author: By Todd F. Braunstein, | Title: In Council Elections, Race Is for Second | 2/2/1994 | See Source »

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