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...work of their program, the Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 2, is often considered the finest example of concerto grosso writing. More often than not, its balance of concertino and ripieno forces is distorted to the point that the harpsichord and flute are never heard, the oboe, rarely, and the trumpet always...
...beefed up the sound to make the music an equal part. Brel says he's not a poet, the verse has to come with the music floating about. We've got ten instruments instead of four. We'll have a trumpet, too, if they send the music. We wanted the band to change color with the pieces, as Brel does; with just piano, guitar, bass, and drums it would all be the same...
...paper companies. It is a place where old mules and dogs can park themselves in a House Beautiful driveway to die, and where the black principal of a segregated school turns out the greatest high school marching band in the nation. At 22 Harriman is a seasoned eccentric-ex-trumpet prodigy, pistol-packing fantasist and medical-school dropout. He has also grown obsessed with the legend of Geronimo, the Apache warrior who lived by his own laws. By the time Hannah's rascally hero moves on from Elvis Presley to the murder of Medgar Evers, he has gone...
...film begins and ends with a set of ripe trumpet arpeggios so full of undefined resonances, comic melancholic, and heroic, that you doubt a film could ever create a heady enough mixture of its own. It does, and the brew is not only heady but true, not only true but important. It makes us feel again, in a modern context, what the wicked have always known: that there is no God, and that the men who rule the earth in his stead are those with the biggest compensating pictures of themselves...
...Third and Fourth Suites are notable for their employment of the baroque trumpet and baroque tympani (the latter, too, different from its contemporary). The Fourth Suite has three competing choirs (in best concertato style): the strings, oboes and bassoons, and trumpets and tympani. The concept of tympani acting as a bass instrument (as legitimate as bassoon, cello, or violone) is foreign to us; but the particular sound of these drums (partly from the use of ivory mallets without felt) gives them a much brighter tone that blends with the trumpets...