Word: trumpeter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...SOUND OF THE TRUMPET (308 pp.) -Leicester Hemmingway - Henry Holt...
...bring about this movement; more important, the new spectrum of orchestral color introduced by such 19th century figures as Rimsky-Korsakov, Tchaikovsky, and Berlioz and developed and refined by virtually every 20th century composer has made greater demands upon woodwind players than upon other instrumentalists. There are few trumpet players today who can play Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 2, and the Paganini violin concerti dating from the early 19th century--not to mention the violin part in the Brandenburg 4th--still make formidable demands upon today's soloists. But (excepting Mozart) it is to this century that woodwind players...
...Geez--a regular dragnet," someone shouted, as a dozen burly New Haven policemen lumbered purposefully up the street. A trumpet bugled "dum-da-da-dum." The ever-increasing crowd of Yalies roared. "We want 'em arrested!" shouted a fellow in blue shorts. "We want 'em arrested!" chanted the mob. The bandsmen jeered back, taking up the melody of "To Hell with Yale," but by now the police had arrived and boarded the busses. They ordered the caravan to a nearby police precinct. The uninhibited enthusiasm of the bandsmen dulled only little. "What do they want, their pictures in Life?" asked...
...square in 3-D (cube that is) diggin' Pete Candoli blowing clarinet on Hey, Bellboy! platter [July 27] review? Tha's a trumpet...
...full-page ads, newspapers and magazines often trumpet their conflicting circulation claims in ways that bewilder readers but apparently impress ad agencies. Last week the Sunday supplement Parade (circ. 5,115,300) spoofed the whole practice with a circulation brochure to prove that it is headed unmistakably toward the "googol" (i.e., mathematical term for 1 plus 100 zeros). The present trend, says Parade "is assuredly toward the googol," since their new claimed readership is over one billion. Method of figuring it out: "Start with Parade's documented total of regular weekly readers (12,892,000), multiply...