Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crowd (1,140 Paid admissions) was shaking it with glee. So were the bright-sleeved musicians on the band stand and their round-faced, sleepy-eyed leader Perez Prado, self-confessed inventor of the mambo. In his dress suit and stiff shirt Prado never even blinked at the deafening brass screeches that threatened to shatter the red neon tubes framing the ceiling. Only 50-odd couples actually danced and of them only a hard core of eight couples were in full mambo frenzy. Easily the champs of the evening were a shapely blonde Boston housewife named Adele Winters...
...first of the ten movements is a prayer for eternal peace, full of heartfelt sighs and dazzling sunbursts. The second (Dies Irae) begins with an insistent, plodding motif in the chorus, building up to a breakoff point when the four brass bands join in. At the work's first performance (so Berlioz claimed), the conductor stopped at that point and had a pinch of snuff, while Berlioz himself leaped to the podium to save the performance. Conductor Munch last week took no chance on faulty entrances, had his warning arm pointing straight toward heaven four bars ahead. The brass...
...according to 19th century wags) a few heavy mortars. He was never able to command such an aggregation, but several times he came close, notably in his most magnificent score, the Grande Messe des Morts (Requiem). That opus calls for a 210-member chorus, full symphony orchestra, four separate brass choirs (labeled according to the points of the compass), plus a battery of 16 kettledrums. Few of today's symphonies can afford to stage the work. At Tanglewood, Mass, last week, Charles Munch and the Boston Symphony Orchestra undertook the task, and the result was some of the loveliest...
...Long resentful of C.I.O. (and United Auto Workers) President Walter Reuther, the Steelworkers have asked Pittsburgh newspapers to stop referring to them as part of the C.I.O., may formally consider secession at their September convention. The excuse may be a jurisdictional fight at the Torrington, Conn, plant of American Brass Co., where organizers for both the Steelworkers and the Auto Workers are locked in a no-quarter struggle for members...
...found it wise to be admirers. After listening to Warsaw's official cheers, Red China's Chou En-lai and the Viet Minh's Pham Van Dong moved on to Moscow. There, Foreign Minister Molotov laid on a huge reception, attended by foreign diplomats, top Russian brass and correspondents. Afterward, they were honored with a lavish dinner presided over by Premier Malenkov himself, flanked by the man who jostles him for supreme power. First Party Secretary Nikita Khrushchev. The night was filled with vodka and flushed talk of victory...