Word: brasses
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Through aggressive recruiting of freshmen, graduate students, and disaffected musicians and singers from other Harvard ensembles, MMV recently expanded its core to 41 musicians--including the conventional orchestral brass, strings, flutes, reeds and percussion, as well as 14 singers, a lute/guitarist, a harpsichordist, an Irish harpist and recorders. "We're not exactly a modern orchestra," Tokuno says...
Besides its instrumentation and repertoire, what makes MMV unique among Harvard musical groups--and what many MMV musicians say attracted them to the group--is its flexible structure. The full MMV ensemble is the sum of its sections--brass or strings or recorders, for example, members stress. Each section can and does perform alone at functions too small for the entire group...
...show's demise provides CBS News with one more chance to produce an early-a.m. winner. The network brass had raised hackles last year by handing this potentially lucrative time slot to a new production division. Since then, CBS News has been bedeviled by budget cuts, layoffs, a writers' strike and erratic ratings for the Evening News. Now the network's news executives hope that the recapture of this breakfast beachhead will boost morale. Says News President Howard Stringer: "I see this as the starting gun for a more productive, happy period...
...superior to theirs." Since 1972, for example, the Soviets have been struggling to establish a continuous early-warning launch-detection satellite system. Since these satellites generally have short life-spans, says a Washington analyst, "the Soviets are forever launching those early-warning systems." As a result, the Soviet brass are less prone than their American counterparts to depend heavily on them. Says Johnson: "The military environment will not collapse without those satellites. They are there simply to enhance and increase the efficiency of Soviet ground-based systems...
Soviet scientists and cosmonauts may have left their frustrated U.S. counterparts behind for now, but Kremlin military brass are hardly breathing any easier. American military space technology still far surpasses that of the Soviets. U.S. KH-11 satellites have sent back such detailed photographs of the Soviets' Krasnoyarsk radar site in Siberia that even the recent inspection by U.S. Congressmen added little to what was known. U.S. monitoring systems follow Soviet naval ships around the world and may eventually be able to spot Soviet submarines underwater. U.S. satellites can track mobile Soviet ICBMs, and would be instrumental in verifying Moscow...