Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week this scene was replayed in the Customs Court of Appeals in Manhattan. Another one of Brancusi's birds, a bright, sinuous piece of brass pipe, tapering at the ends in a not perfectly symmetrical curve, has been shipped from Paris to Edward Steichen, Manhattan photographer and artist. Denied duty-free admission as a work of art, it had been subjected to a tax of $229.35, more than a third of what Purchaser Steichen had paid for it. Appealing the decision, Purchaser Steichen appeared in court accompanied by experts who would support his claim that the bright enigma...
Newsreaders who saw pictures of the elongated, tilted, curved brass bar, wondered whether it had a comparatively hidden meaning, not completely explained by its title or its admirers...
Next Saturday the Harvard players are doomed to being outdressed by the visiting band, wearing full military regalia, and boasting a seven foot drum. Harvard is content to forego the brass buttons and gold braid now that its representatives have added the polish of courtesy to the tunes that they have always rendered faithfully...
Scarcely loss hard-fought than the game itself on Saturday was the struggle staged between the Harvard and Holy Cross bands. Harvard certainly had the numerical advantage, boasted, besides a brass baton of considerable proportions, was supplied with artillery, and certainly inherited a act of marching songs of rhythm and tradition...
...band of these nineteen-twenties made in the conductor's image. That is to say, it is an essentially ultra-modern orchestra, in which each choir sharpens its characteristics. From sweetness and light to sonorities and shadows the strings play intensively. The wood-winds are edged and pungent: the brass rich in the horns, piercing in the trumpets, full-throated elsewhere: the percussion for tang and tingle. Gone are the gentle instrumental voices, as they would now seem, that elderly subscribers recall from Gericke's time...