Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Vienna Philharmonic sound is that of an idealized chamber ensemble, a creamy, homogeneous, pliant blend of wind, brass and string tone that hovers in the air. Trumpeter Helmut Wobisch, the orchestra's manager, ascribes the sound in part to the peculiar nature of Vienna's brass instruments, wider in bore than those used in Ameri can, French and British ensembles, and handmade of exceptionally thin metal, producing a blendable tone without the usual cutting edge...
Having made it selling for Max (and later for Revlon), Matchan set off at age 40 to make lipstick cases on his own, soon hit on his formula for a con glomerate. The key was Cope Allman, a down-and-out Birmingham maker of brass bedsteads, which he bought for its major asset: a stock-exchange list ing. By floating new issues and a lot of publicity, Matchan was able to finance a flood of plants beyond England (where his company now accounts for 90% of lipstick-case output) to France (100%), Australia (80%) and elsewhere. With other companies...
...pile of Victorian architecture somewhere in a London suburb. In her darkened bedroom lies Mother, mortally ill, the heart and guiding hand of seven boys and girls ranging in age from three to 16. The film begins at "Mothertime," the family's daily sunset gathering around her big brass bed for Bible reading and counseling. As the children arrive, Mother dies...
...offered a lot more to see and hear. Designers Ming Cho Lee and Jose Varona filled the New York State Theater stage with a zany array of colors and shapes, set off from time to time by flickering strobe lights and blats from offstage brass players. Soprano Beverly Sills and Bass-Baritone Norman Treigle curved their pliant voices brilliantly around the sinuous Rimsky-Korsakov melodies, and the results restored to life a witty, fantastic and unduly neglected score...
...same rouged portraits of Lincoln and Washington clung to the walls, the same brass bell dominated the teacher's desk, the same science case held birds' nests and pickled fish. And in a one-room schoolhouse in the lower Flathead River Valley of northern Montana, Retired Teacher Lucy Blachly, still sharp and saucy at 78, smiled through swells of emotion and apologized to her greying former students-all of whom she remembered by name-for how she had treated them 60 years ago. "I do hope that none of you bears me ill will for being such...