Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tirelessly, promises land, food, health and education to all within earshot. How much support he has in the La Paz capital is questionable. His incessant speechifying raises the hackles of some of his fellow generals who fear that he has ambitions to become a Bolivian dictator. Last week army brass were privately demanding that Barrientos share the junta leadership with General Alfredo Ovando Candia, his second-in-command...
...Gentils, 46, another assemblagist in the Modern's show, evokes nostalgia by limiting his palette to destroyed pianos. He reassembles them into memento mori. His Berlin-Leipzig could suggest a defunct trans-European express train, or simply what he could do if he had added woodwinds and brass. Not everything new is off key. A newcomer at the Modern, German-born Mary Bauermeister, 30, believes that there is more than one way to look at a painting. She boxes pen and ink scribbles, beasties and the progress notes of her work beneath Plexiglas layers, scatters them with lenses...
...Yannatos, and Miss Owen proved that they could do more than entertain. They played Mahler's Fourth Symphony--a technically demanding, emotionally difficult work. The first movement was characterized by the precisely drawn contrast between the rich, sweeping romanticism of the strings and the sharp clarity of the brass and woodwinds. The orchestra demonstrated perfect control in responding to Yannatos' variation of tempo and dynamics...
...first movement, for example, the doom-laden theme in the basses sounded against a background of Nearer, My God, to Thee, softly played by a chamber ensemble isolated at the rear of the orchestra. Then the violins joined in with The Sweet Bye and Bye, intertwined with clashes of brass and drums and another hymn sung by an 18-voice chorus. The second movement, beginning with a blaring Marching Through Georgia, erupted into a cacophonous frenzy, while above and below individual instruments unconcernedly picked out Yankee Doodle and Turkey in the Straw, After a soothingly lovely third movement, the work...
Straight Propaganda. For all his eminence on TV, Murrow fought a running battle with CBS brass for several years. A 28-man committee had been set up to approve all news programs, and in 1958 See It Now was dropped. Finally, Murrow gave a speech denouncing the whole industry tor purveying "decadence, escapism and insulation from the realities of the world." A Democrat by leaning, the he left TV in 1961 to take the job of director of the U.S. Information Agency under President Kennedy...