Word: diamonds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...opinion that supports laws and customs not much different from South Africa's-except, say its critics, for the addition of hypocrisy. The son of a Russian-Polish immigrant who gave up a profitable fur trade in the U.S. Midwest to try his luck in the South African diamond rush, husky young Roland Welensky left school at 14 and wandered all over Africa, taking jobs as clerk, butcher and baker, then settled in his native Rhodesia. His success as a union organizer led on to politics...
...leads his seven-man band through Hot Lips, Basin Street Stomp, and other items of Dixieland "sugar stuff." The arrangements are as predictable as a TV script, and the sound is unexceptional. With his horn in his right hand and his left hand flashing an outsized diamond as he carves out the rhythms, McCoy demonstrates that he can still make a trumpet caterwaul, growl, wail, or punch out notes of brassy clarity...
...David Diamond's The World of Paul Klee, which had its premiere in 1958, was played by the New York Philharmonic under Assistant Conductor Seymour Lipkin. Each of Diamond's four musical pictures was introduced by a "frame," which served the same mood-setting function that Mussorgsky's "promenades" do in Pictures from an Exhibition. Like Schuller, Composer Diamond used Twittering Machine as the inspiration for one of his pieces, but he saw it in more somber tones: muted, dark-hued movements of the strings, with the picture's more jagged lines delineated by scampering woodwinds...
...when they are happy, bonfires rage in the concrete bleachers when they are mad. In the Dominican Republic, they swarm onto the field in such purposeful rage that offending umpires have fled in the police paddy wagon. In Cuba, they salute a good play by spraying spectators across the diamond with a fusillade of Roman candles...
...himself to be, the swoops of a hyperbolic plot hardly matter. What is the man doing off the coast of South West Africa in a vessel fitted out as a lowly trawler, but bearing high-speed engines in the hull of a yacht? The shoreline he approaches is forbidden, diamond-rich territory; is Peace after contraband...