Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hindemith: Concert Music for Piano, Brass and Two Harps; Concerto for Orchestra (Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra; Decca). Composer Paul Hindemith himself conducts two samples from transitional points (1930 and 1935) in his career. Concert Music plays sounding brasses against whispering harps and a trip-hammered piano in a mood of agitated melancholy; Concerto opens with the full orchestra piling forward over chiseling strings at a martial trot that is remarkable for its sheer momentum and verve. Neither piece is vintage Hindemith, but both are expert, sophisticated and full of orchestral surprises...
...Senate Labor Committee voted it out a fortnight ago by a bipartisan margin of 12 to Goldwater, nobody in Washington took up Goldwater's cry that the bill was "milk toast." Labor chieftains kept a discreet silence-understandably, since Massachusetts' John Fitzgerald Kennedy had consulted A.F.L.-C.I.O. brass while he was drafting the bill...
...book is essentially a brass-rubbing on the tomb of a dead society. In his introduction, Lord David Cecil (The Young Melbourne) talks of a "masterpiece" and describes certain passages as among "the most beautiful in all modern English literature." While the trilogy plainly fails to live up to this exaggerated billing, it remains a well-written, well-crafted work. Another of the Stately Tomes of England has been thrown open to the public...
Last week the Daily Times got a new managing editor: studious, gregarious John Nicholas Popham, 47, for the past eleven years the New York Times's chief Southern correspondent. Johnny Pop-ham's appointment completed the replacement of the paper's aging top brass that was started 16 months ago when Ben Hale Golden, 47, became publisher...
...beauty industry is far more interested in finding new products than rescuing old ones, is moving more and more into research. Revlon has more than 70 chemists on its staff, and about half its current sales are from products introduced since 1950, e.g., high-gloss lipstick. Top Brass hair dressing for men and hair sprays. Charlie Revson, who proclaims that "research is a deep religion with me," likes to don a white coat and take a turn at the retorts. On the average, a product takes from a year and a half to two years from conception to store shelves...