Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...opening performance, Norman Dello Joio's incidental music was often highly obtrusive, especially the brass tuckets. The softer portions, such as the supernatural music and the funeral music for Antony, are also of far better quality...
Stockholder Sol Dann, a Detroit lawyer and self-appointed watchdog for Chrysler's stockholders who has long been publicly charging "corruption" against Chrysler brass, announced that he would file suit on behalf of the stockholders against Chrysler's management to see if any more cash might be recovered...
...YORK-MOSCOW FLIGHTS by Pan American World Airways and Russia's Aeroflot state line will be delayed until Khrushchev behaves better. U.S. officials canceled visit of Aeroflot brass due in Washington this week to discuss the deal. Belgium's Sabena airline is only New York-Moscow through flight...
...Czechoslovakia, Raúl Castro, brother of Fidel and head of Cuba's armed forces, showed that Communism's affection for Cuba was mutual. On a visit to a dam near Pisek, in western Czechoslovakia, he met a troupe of junketing Red Chinese and North Korean military brass, chatted about the common struggle of the Chinese, Korean and Cuban peoples against "the American aggressors." A few weeks before he set out on his trip, Raúl Castro remarked to intimates in Havana: "My dream is to drop three atomic bombs on New York...
French Horn Masterpieces, Vol. II (James Stagliano; Paul Ulanowsky, piano; Boston). An ear-opener for listeners to whom the French horn is little more than an operatic halloo. The composers are Russian and French, most of them dyed-in-the-brass romantics: Gliere, Cui, Glazunov, Tchaikovsky, Scriabin, Dukas, Faure. The most interesting work is Francis Poulenc's sparsely angular, twelve-tone Elegie written in tribute to Britain's late, great hornist, Dennis Brain. The Boston Symphony's Stagliano summons a rich, clear and remarkably controlled sound...