Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harry spectaculars where everything seems to get lost in the shuffle." It is not very likely that Siegel will ever get a spectacular to direct, partly because his movies have seldom done very good business, partly because the studio executives do not care for his bellicose, independent ways. "The brass made me put a prologue and epilogue on Invasion of the Body Snatchers that damn near ruined the whole thing," he recalls. "And after the first screening of Riot in Cell Block 11, all the executives filed out without saying a single word. I sometimes feel like a prophet without...
Both soloist and conductor Yannatos inadequately articulated the Bartokian transitions between tempo energico and tempo rubato. This was especially noticeable in the last movement, which as a result sounded perfunctory and rather episodic. The orchestra's strings and winds usually produced an opaque sound lacking inner luster, but the brass sonorously performed those resplendent tutti passages which hint of the later Concerto for Orchestra...
Jerald R. Gerst's "Brass Tacks" editorial entitled "Instant Pre-Med" disturbed me for, although Jerry's heart was in the right place, his analysis of the problems facing medicine was somewhat misdirected. Thus, I would like to raise some point in relation to that November 2 editorial...
Manhattan's latest watering hole is hidden away in the basement of the Sherry-Netherland Hotel behind a heavy wooden door with only a discreet brass name plate to identify it. Designer Cecil Beaton has maintained the speakeasy image by decking the joint out with dark red and green wallpaper and gleaming brass fixtures, plus just a hint of modern psychedelia in the lights flashing across the dining-room ceiling. But not everybody can get into Raffles merely by rapping on the door and whispering, "Joe sent me." It costs $500 to join, another $350 a year in dues...
...show. Flashing, multicolored panels of lights flank a glistening fountain in the background, while two go-go girls shimmy in the foreground. The band, massed in a double row facing the audience, is a discotheque in itself. While punching out blues riffs over a pile-driving beat, the brass and saxophone players whirl their instruments around and swivel through the shing-a-ling, the funky Broadway, and other loose-jointed steps-some of their own devising. Leaders in each section use hand signals to cue the choreography...