Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CALYPSO IN BRASS (RCA Victor). The Tijuana Brass burnished the sound of the Mexican mariachi band, and now Harry Belafonte has added the alloy to the music of the Caribbean. Belafonte's personal exuberance, however, triumph over the instrumentation. The accent in the album is definitely on calypso, as in Cocoanut Woman and The Naughty Little Flea...
...French Designer Francois-Xavier Lalanne. Delighting the throngs at the Art Institute are his furnishings, including a flock of 22 woolly-coated, roller-footed sheep that serve as seats, sofas or hassocks; a monumental housefly three feet long that sports a rosewood toilet seat; and a life-size brass rhinoceros weighing 735 Ibs. whose side swings down to make a desk...
...date she is delightful?"a smashing bird," says Director Reisz. She can make away with a bottle of Taittinger between 6 and 8, kick up her heels with the Tijuana Brass, get so interested in what someone is saying that she misses her mouth with her fork, and blurt a delightfully risky remark if it seems to be in order. "My bras have all turned yellow," she groaned to a friend recently. "I expect Nanny has boiled them in urine...
...never written for solo cello before, and Piston displayed his own virtuosity by splashing forth a 23-minute polyphonic conversation organized as five variations on a theme. Brass and strings quarreled to the punctuation of tambourines and drums, then drifted in and out of harmony-while with his soaring silkiness, Rostropovich traced wide melodic angles ranging from sad loveliness to brittle dissonance. "I hope it is better than anything else I've written," said Piston. Then he set off to try to do even better on two new commissions. "You can't stop," he explained. "Music...
...seclusion, they may swim through a gentle waterfall to a hidden grotto furnished with soft cushions and background music. Privacy is not complete, however; the grotto can be observed through a trap door on the main hall above. The way to a nightcap is a brisk slide down a brass firehouse pole leading to a bar, where a glass wall gives an underwater view of the pool...