Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fringes, network TV has so far been and still remains the force that decides which candidate will be seen and heard and which will not be seen and heard. Though he speaks with the tongues of men and of angels and has not television, he is become as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal, for it is television that beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things. Says defeated Presidential Aspirant Jerry Brown: "If a person isn't on tele vision, he is a political nonbeing. He does not exist for the voter, even if that voter meets...
...chief value of Ethan Mordden's The Splendid Art of Opera is in just such updatings, which are the results of exhaustive research. Unfortunately, Mordden, a former editor of Opera News, has a brass ear for language: one composer, he writes, "will have to wow 'em pronto." His book is less pleasurable than utilitarian, something to thumb through for answers rather than for diversion...
...Carters' belongings was trucked out and the first load of the Reagans' rolled in. A number of eager Reagan aides also took up their posts. Five workers entered the Oval Office just as Dominador Julian, who has served every President since Eisenhower, was polishing the brass doorknob. They rearranged the furniture as Reagan had specified, moving the sofas into a conversation area. They also took on the Cabinet Room, replacing the portraits of Jefferson and Truman with those of Eisenhower and Coolidge. As Reagan explained to his Cabinet at their first meeting the following day: "Eisenhower...
...composer cried after the premiere of his work. His passion for life and love, and the impending doom he felt achieves palpability in the percussion's pulse, the woodwinds' C minor arias in the third movement, and the brass' blues. Abbado's interpretation, whether instinctive or well-planned, hits the mark just like Bernstein, who pioneered the performance of Mahler's symphonies for concert-goers...
...Tijuana Brass...