Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...intuition telling her that the Russians would have a woman in space by the fall, Jane Briggs Hart, 40, aviatrix wife of Michigan's Democratic Senator Philip Hart, hoped to beat them to the launch. After getting nowhere with NASA brass, the zingy mother of eight (who has logged some 2,000 flying hours and last summer passed the astronauts' screening physical) decided to go to what she thought was the top. To no avail. "He was very interested," sighed Janie Hart after 30 minutes with National Aeronautics and Space Council Chairman Lyndon B. Johnson, "but he said...
...BRAZEN BRASS ZINGS THE STRINGS (Henry Jerome and His Orchestra; Decca). Mood music played by an orchestra so artfully fragmented in the studio and reassembled that a listener with a mind to can believe he is sitting among the first violins. Mostly for audio addicts...
There are only two buildings, one apparently a residence of sorts, with simple wooden steps leading up to a green door, which has a brass knocker. Though it is late afternoon, there is a bottle of milk and a folded newspaper on the bottom step. The effect is conservative...
Gunther Schuller: Music for Brass Quintet and Fantasy Quartet for Four Celli (Composers Recordings Inc.). Composer Schuller, a onetime first-chair hornist for the Metropolitan Opera, explores the potential of brasses in a fragmented Quintet that is by turns haunted, anguished or raucously jeering. The fine Fantasy Quartet, with its dynamic rhythms and attenuated lines, finds the composer in a less ruffled but consistently moving frame of mind...
...events smashed this intellectual trade union: 1) a beery, gusty, word-wildered Welshman named Dylan Thomas and 2) World War II. Poet Thomas, with his golden rain of words and his great brass gong of a voice, reminded poetry of its origins in ritual and chant. And the war forced poets to face political, social and spiritual realities. At first, the horror of it all seemed to numb them; the war itself produced no genuinely great poetry in English. But such poets as Karl Shapiro, Randall Jarrell, Richard Eberhart and Britain's Henry Treece were moved to describe their...