Word: flugelhorns
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...Gary McFarland Orchestra; Verve). Arranger-Bandleader McFarland achieves the all but impossible by putting some bite and character into the bland Frank Loesser score. Paris Original and Brotherhood of Man are gingery with ingenious instrumental chatter; I Believe in You turns into a fine, lightly swinging solo for Flugelhorn...
...Best in the Business" was at its best Wednesday night when it presented the annual spring band concert to a sparse Sanders audience. Spirited, lively music filled the ancient hall, with a brief interruption for "Die Wursthausen Philharmonischen Flugelhorn Musikanten," the perennial concert comics...
...Band portion of yesterday's concert, with all its good points, was nearly eclipsed by the appearance of five suspendered individuals known as "Die Wursthausischen Philharmonischen Flugelhorn-Musikanten" who provided by far the best entertainment of the afternoon with a post-intermission selection of beer music in true Austrian style, fairly bringing down the house. Known otherwise as "The Hungry Five," these gentlemen sported the thickest of gutterel accents, the nattiest of knee-length stockings, and a monstrous tuba that was seven feet tall if it was an inch, grinding out such old favorites as "If You Knew Brunnhilde Like...
...years ago, the musical world was already swooning in the aisles over the fire-and-ice perfection of Arturo Toscanini's interpretations. Since then the little white-haired Maestro has become the darling of millions who couldn't tell a fugue from a flugelhorn. Today, as chief of NBC's shiny new symphony, 72-year-old Arturo Toscanini is far & away the biggest lion in the U. S. musical...