Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that floating committee room, the Baltika, churned and rolled across the Atlantic with Nikita Khrushchev and his claque of Communism's top brass, most pervasive presence aboard was the man who wasn't there-Red China's Mao Tsetung. It is increasingly apparent that, more than the Congo or Cuba, what is chiefly on Khrushchev's mind is his clash with...
Fumes of Privilege. All is not yet lost on Savile Row, the "Golden Mile" made up of some 200 establishments on half a dozen streets in Mayfair. In a men's-club atmosphere of horsehair sofas, fireplaces, brass candelabras and rolltop desks, the shops breathe-as one historian noted appreciatively-"the fumes of privilege, of clubs, of Toryism." In keeping with the tradition that put a Savile Row uniform on Napoleon III when he mounted the throne of France, Hawes & Curtis recently finished a $900, gold-braided beauty for Thailand's King Bhumibol, as part...
...world premiere of Daniel Pinkham's This Is the Day highlights the annual Summer School Chorus concert next Tuesday evening in Sanders Theater. The composer, harpsichordist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, wrote the work for mixed chorus, brass and timpanl expressly for the Summer School Chorus...
...Baroque and classical music are also included in the two-hour performance. Praetorius' "Canticum Trium Puerorum" for small and large choruses, brass enable, and organ; madrigals by Hassler killmayer, Marenzio, Monteverdi, and Morley; and three choruses from Handel's Solomon will be performed...
Nonetheless he did nothing to discourage Arizona's Governor Paul Fannin from nominating Barry Goldwater for the presidency. The hall thundered with a Goldwater demonstration. Youngsters carrying standards bearing his picture marched down the aisles; a brass band of Arizona Indians trooped along behind them. In the family box, Margaret Goldwater and her daughter Peggy wept...