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...London disc also features a recording of Shostakovich's Piano Concerto No. 1, with Ronald Brautigam at the piano and Peter Masseurs supplying the trumpet solo work. The piece resembles Shostakovich's other concertos for violin and cello in that conventional devices of the Germanic school are used for delirious swells and placid falls, with the addition of unexpected minor chord modulations that open up new possibilities for the instrument. Those who see Shostakovich as a throwback to the Romantics should not underestimate the importance of his original variations on timetested themes...
...certainly one of the more dramatic. The movie begins with Mufasa, king of the plains (NOT the jungle--the Disney people are too smart to fall for cliches here) presenting his small cub, Simba, to his assorted subjects. Elephants trumpet. The soundtrack rises in pitch. And then, the scene suddenly disappears from the screen, abruptly replaced with "THE LION KING"--blood-red, no less (more on that later...
...delegates from 180 nations will meet in Cairo for another go at the population problem. Advocacy groups and bureaucrats alike trumpet this conference as a breakthrough because it will focus on women's issues. In U.N.-speak, however, that translates into a catalog of desiderata ranging from appeals to eliminate sexual stereotypes to calls for men to do more housework -- nice-sounding proposals that are irrelevant to population control in many of the traditional cultures of the Third World...
WASHINGTON -- After taking heat from human-rights groups for granting China MFN status, the U.S. is planning a low-key, go-slow approach to closer ties with VIETNAM. The new U.S. liaison office in Hanoi will quietly help firms seeking business but will not organize showy trade missions or trumpet Vietnam's economy as the next big Asian opportunity...
Born in New Orleans, Blanchard grew up saturated in music. His father was an insurance man and aspiring opera singer, and his early career paralleled that of Wynton Marsalis, another hometown musician. Blanchard studied composition and classical and jazz trumpet at the New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts, then moved to New York City, where he landed one of jazz's most enviable jobs: trumpeter in the Art Blakey Band...