Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...torn waters, a high-handed captain called Marcus Aurelius Arnheiter, a roster of rebellious junior officers respectively named Hardy, Generous and Belmonte, and a precipitate change of command that reverberated clear to the Secretary of the Navy-thereby threatening the careers of some of the service's brightest brass...
McNamara and the brass hats disagreed sharply last August in testimony before the Senate Preparedness Subcommittee on the effectiveness of the bombing raids on North Vietnam. The generals and admirals insisted that the bombing, particularly if it were intensified, could force the North Vietnamese to capitulate. Furthermore, they said that the raids were of material help to American troops fighting in the South...
SINGER PRESENTS HERB ALPERT & THE TI JUANA BRASS (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Herb's brass rings out from mountain to shore as the group plays its hits on location in Southern California. Repeat...
...squarely faces a fact often obscured by sentimental hindsight: a great many bands of the era were inevitably cheap, slick or inept. He quotes Arranger Gordon Jenkins, after an evening of listening to the radio in 1937: "I heard 458 chromatic runs on accordions, 911 'telegraph ticker' brass figures, 78 sliding trombones, four sliding violas, 45 burps into a straw, 91 bands that played the same arrangement on every tune, and 11,006 imitations of Benny Goodman...
...spite of all this, the evening was far from an overwhelming triumph. The Haydn and the Milhaud suffered from problems of balance; the brass and the percussion were the respective offenders. Intonation in the Haydn was poor. Accompaniment figures in the violas were almost polytonal, and in spite of stalwarts like Street, Lisa Sandow and Richard Hamm, the strings evinced the same raw amateur sound that has plagued the Bach Society for years. Only in the humor of the finale's coda did the work manage to come alive...