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...young (average age: 23) wind and percussion players from all over the U.S. and, this year, Japan and Canada. It may not match the luxurious silkiness of the Philadelphia Orchestra, but then it has no strings attached. Drawn from 300 to 400 auditioners a year, the orchestra is a crisp, vibrant sounding ensemble that can give its conductor just about anything he wants. What Boudreau wants is as much style and excitement in an electronic-and-live composition as in a Richard Rodgers medley, and he invariably gets...
...EFFECT OF GAMMA RAYS ON MAN-IN-THE-MOON MARIGOLDS (478). Cremation is not confined to the dead. There are families in which people burn each other to a crisp daily, and dance with desolate glee in the ashes. This is a masterly play about such a family. As the mother, Carolyn Coates is laceratingly cruel and pitiably vulnerable...
...matchless armchair general and indeed, as pioneer advocate of fast-moving armored columns, a teacher of generals. Liddell Hart worked on this history for a quarter-century; he died last year while correcting proofs. Quite literally, it is his epitaph, and an appropriate one. For along with a crisp style, skill and precision, it carries the anachronistic imprint of a boy who grew up loving games and came to view war as the most fascinating game...
...Houston was intrigued by an oldtimer's yarn of a lost whaleboat crew found wandering on the ice floes by Eskimos in 1896. The three men lived a year among their rescuers, only to be killed by them in the end. The White Dawn is Houston's crisp and delicate reconstruction of that tale...
...This is it, guys, the NCAA bid. So play it smart," said Brown lacrosse coach Cliff Stevenson, as the rain poured down and made his crisp new ball-cap soggy. "They can't make up five goals unless you let them. So let's have no goddam banana passes...