Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shoe-repair shops. He and his wife, Singer Keely Smith, receive about 100 business and social visitors a week at their twelve-room North Hollywood house, which has a big black-and-orange piano in the poolroom, a private studio and a swimming pool out back, and a brass plaque on the front door that says: "Our house is open to sunshine, friends, guests...
James M. Fallows, in his recent "Brass Tacks" article, wants us to "Remember the Pueblo." But remember it for what? On this point the article is somewhat equivocal...
They were treated to selections from Herb Alpert and his Tijuana Brass, weekend football scores and lengthy newscasts. The diversion was especially welcome on the return trip, which turned out to be the least eventful part of the journey. Two more live telecasts were presented from the spacecraft, and more star navigation checks were made, but the last two mid-course corrections were canceled: Apollo 8 was dead on target...
...Matthew Passion. Although severely cut and subjected to a much doctored orchestration, the music awoke the public to Bach. Thereafter, the 19th century treated him with a mixture of veneration and desecration. His choral works were frequently performed, but with muddy-sounding 1,000-voice choirs and thick, brass-bottomed orchestras. His original scores were collected over a period of 50 years for the definitive 60-volume Bach-Gesellschaft edition of his works, completed in 1900 (a new, even more complete edition is now under way). But they contained few indications of tempo, dynamics or phrasing, so many publishers continued...
Masked Innocence. His imagination takes another turn with Burning House. Topped by a Dairy Queen turret, it stands on spindle legs like a kind of stylized cockerel. A .mirrored slot is its front door, a bell tolls the alarm from its innards, and brass flames flick from its windows. A viewer can peer past them to discover a drawing of a grotesque dragon and miniature ladders leading to invisible upper rooms from which there is obviously no escape. What does it mean? "I have no idea," says Westermann. "I cam build a thing, but I can't nail down...