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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gunther Schuller: Music for Brass Quintet and Fantasy Quartet for Four Celli (Composers Recordings Inc.). Composer Schuller, a onetime first-chair hornist for the Metropolitan Opera, explores the potential of brasses in a fragmented Quintet that is by turns haunted, anguished or raucously jeering. The fine Fantasy Quartet, with its dynamic rhythms and attenuated lines, finds the composer in a less ruffled but consistently moving frame of mind...
Thunderous Chirp. Far from being alarmed, acoustical engineers today are in favor of the low steady hum. "There should be an unobtrusive noise, constant and surflike," says Robert B. Newman, a partner in the Cambridge. Mass., acoustical engineering firm of Bolt, Beranek & Newman, Inc. Without it, the slightest sound can prove enormously distracting. Typical is the commuter who reads a book amid the accustomed clatter of the 5:42, yet is shaken out of bed when a robin chirps in the silence of a country morning...
...overall functioning of the magazine will be handled by the Intercollegiate Review Inc. Although it has accumulated members, the Harvard-Radcliffe ICR has not yet officially become a college group...
...Louis' Dazey Enterprises, Inc. The firm provides manuals of instruction, outlines for Sunday sermons on tithing and conscience-pricking bulletins for distribution at services (sample headline: HAVE BUDGETED YOURSELF AWAY FROM GOD?). All this leads up to "Intention Sunday," when parishioners make their pledges. Dazey's fee: $2.22 per wage earner in small parishes, $1.02 in large ones. Boasts President Harry Dazey, himself a tither: "We sell 95% of the pastors that we call...
...Chomping away at his customary cigar. Texaco Inc.'s soft-spoken Chairman Augustus C. Long, 57. prepared to swap $200 million worth of Texaco shares for the TXL Oil Corp.. a crude oil producer with mineral rights on nearly 2.000,000 acres in oil-rich west Texas...