Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...neglected forerunner of Heinrich Schutz. The Suite, consisting of five stately dances, emerged slightly Stokowskified; an excessive number of strings, plus modern oboes and timpani, produced a far richer sound than their Baroque counterparts. And one could make a nice chorale out of the notes missed by the brass (an off night for them generally). But no matter; this was charming music, realized with spirit, and it is promising to find Jackson venturing into unrecorded repertory...
...match the grandeur of its architecture in sound. He nearly does so in this performance conducted by Eugene Ormandy. The Philadelphia Orchestra, augmented by extra horns, winds and percussion, and the Temple University Choirs of 250 voices are welded into an instrument of blockbusting power and variety: four brass bands blaze the summons to the Last Judgment, and the woodwinds whisper as Tenor Cesare Valletti sings the poetic Sanctus...
...Broadway THE ROYAL HUNT OF THE SUN, by Peter Shaffer, an eye-filling theatrical spectacular set in 16th century Peru, is fine when it sticks to tableaux of weary conquista dors making their nail-clawing ascent of the Andes. When it gets down to dramatic brass tacks, however, the play is full of such tacky fugues as war is hell, God is dead, and life lacks meaning...
...both parts of the trumpet duet, achieves a two-dimensional effect by slightly altering the synchronization and recording one trumpet line a shade sharp or flat by a process he keeps secret in order to discourage the many imitators that have cropped up in the wake of the Tijuana Brass's success. And aficionados of pure mariachi, who once scorned Ameriachi, are now buying it. One of the ten best-selling records in Mexico City last week was the Tijuana Brass's Whipped Cream...
Laing abstracts the hot-rod esthetic in paintings on brass and aluminum that hinge and bend to slither up the walls or across the floor. They employ the customized car lingo in their textures: chrome and riots of rainbow "flake" (colored metal chips frozen in sprayed vinyl) finishes. They take the serpentine ripple of flames painted on the sides of racing cars, the flapping forms of the parachutes used to slow giant dragsters. Before Laing's one-man show in Manhattan opened last week at the Richard Feigen Gallery, they also were completely sold...