Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rare Birds. Elsewhere in the U.S., lady musicians are having a heyday. The Cleveland Orchestra now has 11, the San Francisco 17, the Houston 25 and the American Symphony 44. Trombonist Betty Glover, 43, adds class to the brass of the Cincinnati Symphony; Helen Taylor, 24, plays a mean English horn for the Houston Symphony. The rare bird in the Los Angeles aviary is Barbara Winters, 28, who, to produce the needed penetrating sounds from her oboe, must pit her trim 120 lbs. against male fellow oboists who average a burly-chested 200 Ibs. To maintain the exceptional breath control...
...reprocessed at the plant itself; the rest comes through the scrap and salvage industry, which buys up wastes from plants, offices and homes. The copper in a skillet, for instance, may have an indefinite series of incarnations over a cycle of many years, moving from smelter to refinery to brass mill to the factory to housewife's kitchen to junk collector to a secondary refinery where it is smelted into ingots and sold back to the factory. Overall, only an estimated 15% of all the copper ever mined has been lost...
David Sloss does a beautiful job of keeping his twenty-three fine musicians together through the tricky orchestrations. Now all he has to do is keep them quiet, for they are much too loud, and although few lyrics get lost, the noise gets painful. Mutes on the brass and a lighter hand on the tympani might help. J.D. McLaughlin's set leaves a maximum amount of clear space for cavorting on the small Agassiz stage. The show is brightly lit, as comedy should be, and the costumes are clashingly colorful and good...
When the day was over, goggle-eyed cops found they had confiscated an array of weaponry that would have enabled the original Minutemen of 1775 to rout the British at Lexington and conquer England as well. The trove included 115 rifles, five mortars, nine machine guns, 26 pistols, brass-knuckled trench knives, machetes, hunting knives, throwing knives, cleavers, two bazookas, three anti-tank grenade launchers, 50 camouflage uniforms and steel helmets, 30 walkie-talkies, ten cans of black powder, crossbows, and more than a million rounds of ammunition-plus arrows for the crossbows...
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. If I have all the eloquence of men or of angels, but speak without love, I am simply a gong booming or a cymbal clashing...