Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...habit of reviewing her own stories by telling the reader what he ought to think about them. Of A Case of Conscience she says: "The inhabitants of Annotsfield . . . are often supposed by those outside the town to be complete materialists, narrow-minded, uncultured, coarse, interested only in cloth, 'brass' [i.e., money] and possibly football. That this is a mistake, that they are capable of violent and protracted passion for an abstract idea, is sufficiently proved, I think, by the events above recorded...
...orchestra (now grown from 50 to 70 members) has surprised critics with its rapidly acquired ensemble discipline. It seems more successful with the works of Hungarian composers (Bartok, Kodaly) than in the standard repertory, stronger in the string section than in the brasses. To beef up the brass, Conductor Rozsnyai recently hired four Austrians; he also recruited an American violinist, clarinetist and horn player...
...immaculate "Divertimento for Nine Instruments." Robert Brink was the fine soloist in the first local performance of the revised version of Alan Hovhaness' Concerto No.2 for Violin and String Orchestra, a rather bland neo-modal work. Carl Ruggles' extremely dissonant Angels was written for either string or brass ensemble; the performance here by strings could not equal the extraordinary effect that three trumpets and five trombones can achieve. The concert ended with Daniel Pinkham '44 conducting the combined chorus and orchestra in his new Wedding Cantata. In five movements, this is a wholly ingratiating and captivating work, full of imaginative...
...simple yet radical idea: spare the listener the sound of the human voice, except at decent intervals, i.e., no oftener than every 15 minutes through the day and every half-hour in the evening. In between. WPAT. plays carefully chosen, well-groomed music, mostly the massed strings and muted brass of the Mantovani-Kostelanetz style, nothing more popular than show tunes or more classical than a Brahms waltz...
...cardoon as an offering. As Novelist Rimanelli spells it out, America with its fabulous giobbe (jobs) offers the one hope of earthly release from a doom of sweat, petty theft, envy, slander. For peasant poverty here has not made for nobility of soul-these people are tougher than the brass-hearted Normans of De Maupassant. Unlike the Irish who made a myth and a song of economic despair, these Mediterranean realists can only make brutal gestures, and Novelist Rimanelli has told a chronicle of such gestures in terms of the Vietri family...