Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...called for and received a great deal of refinement of interpretation especially by the trumpets made its New England debut, and Milhand's "Suite Francaise" had been played in this country only twice before. Two pleasant surprises were the muted trumpet sole in Morton Gould's "Pavanue," and the brass and reed choir effects in "Prayer of Thanksgiving." One of the high points in the way of intricate original arranging for which the Band is famous, was reached in the "Strike Up The Band" scoring for the clarinets...
Obviously, He was not. The godforsaken conference at last got down to brass tacks (thanks largely to George Marshall's drive). But it did not get down to anything like agreement. No sooner had the Ministers tackled the most important points of the German question (reparations, economic and political unification) than the U.S. and Russia-in almost so many words-called each other a couple of horse thieves...
Another place had a waisthigh, turquoise-blue floor vase, filled with paper calla lilies, and a great brass Russian samovar for decorations. But it had no icebox, no bed linen, no telephone. The price: $250 a month-$750 in advance plus a deposit of $500-which we would probably not get back. Said the perspiring owner, "Sempre tem vento" (There's always a breeze). "Sempre?" we asked. "Sempre," she replied, daintily wiping her forehead...
...lacked both clarity and freshness; it continually dragged. Similar difficulties were encountered in the four Gabrieli selections, although the fine expression and phrasing in Monteverdi's Ohime Se Tanto Amate made up for lapses in technique. With the superb playing of six members of the New England Conservatory's brass department backing them up, the combined groups offered, in the final Jubilate Deo, some of the unrestrained, full-blown sonorities the large audience had been waiting to hear...
...takeoff, to meet U.S. Ambassador Walter Thurston and his aides, drawn up on the cement apron. At the same moment Mexico's President Miguel Aleman started down a specially built staircase from the observation platform (which had been newly decorated with brown rugs, leather office furniture, gleaming brass spittoons). The 21-gun salute due a chief of state boomed out; the U.S. and Mexican anthems sounded...