Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Orleans as far back as memory runs, marching brass bands have always tried to spread a bit of joy after the sorrow of a burial. Every jazz giant in the New Orleans pantheon-Kid Ory, Jelly Roll Morton, Bunk Johnson-developed his art partly by playing for funerals. The king of them all, Louis Armstrong, played a funeral the very day in 1922 when a telegram sent him off to join King Oliver in Chicago and soon onward to world fame...
...musicians outside. The organ plays hymns that would be favorites in any Baptist church: In the Garden, Just as I Am. A priest reads from Job and speaks of the "gift of music" that Albert Walters had. Funerals like Walters', as William J. Schafer fairly puts it in Brass Bands and New Orleans Jazz, are "public acts, theatrical displays designed not to hide burial as a fearful obscenity but to exhibit it as a community act." And the public's participation afterward is "a celebration of life as much as a recognition of the triumph of death...
News from Florida: Former Harvard baseball star MIKE STENHOUSE '80 was one of several non-roster players invited to the Montreal Expos major league camp. Stenhouse was impressing the Expos brass until a pitch hit him in the forearm last week. The injury will sideline him for six weeks... LARRY BROWN '79 continues to pitch in the Houston Astros system. After a fine season in the Colombian Winter League. Brown is slated to play for Houston's AA affiliate in Columbus, Georgia, this summer. He would probably be at the AAA level in most other organizations, but the pitching-rich...
...last night of the convention season was nothing less than spectacular. Every lighting lackey and cable layer was invited to swanky Tavern-on-the-Green in New York's Central Park to dance and dine the night away with the top brass. With enough liquor to anesthetize a Russian army and with every kind of food known to man, we all soon got into the spirit. Beefy cameramen jostled the likes of Lesley Stahl at the crepe and caviar table, and pool secretaries chatted with producers...
...Thatcher, the first head of a NATO government to call on Reagan at the White House, was greeted by a huge honor guard arrayed across the South Lawn. Battle streamers snapping in a brisk wind, the Marine Band passed in review, its bearskin-hatted drum major raising a brass baton in salute. Reagan in his welcoming remarks stressed watchfulness: "So long as our adversaries continue to arm themselves at a pace far beyond the needs of defense, so the free world must do whatever is necessary to safeguard its own security...