Word: orchestra
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pseudofeminist song called "HIStory (History's His Story First)." I had the inescapable impression that the Pudding's male producers, male authors, male composer, male orchestrators and all-male cast were implicitly thumbing their collective nose at all women, even the few who toiled along in the pit orchestra...
...finale production number revealed more second-hand material. Significant plagiarism of Sam & Dave's "Hold On, I'm Coming" and Kool and the Gang's "Celebration" blemished the score, previously marked only by a humorous reference to Edvard Grieg's Piano Concerto. The orchestra seemed weary as well, though its strong rhythm section pushed onwards...
...warrior and a big softie. At Ronald Reagan's 85th birthday party, Colin Powell heard the orchestra strike up the Reagans' favorite song, the Gershwins' Our Love Is Here to Stay, and sang it for Nancy. "Rich baritone," said bandleader Murray Korda...
DIED. MERCER ELLINGTON, 76, musician and the son of jazz great Duke Ellington; of heart failure; in Copenhagen. Mercer led his father's orchestra after Duke's 1974 death and was music director of Sophisticated Ladies, the 1981 Broadway celebration of the elder Ellington's music...
...Even the orchestra exceeded the usual standard for student performances. There was, as always, some slackness of tempo and wobbling in the strings and horns; but over the long and difficult haul, the orchestra only improved. Only rarely, as at the end of Act II, did it drown out the singers...