Word: trumpets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Composer Shapero contributes a jazz arrangement of a Monteverdi chaconne. Entitled No Green Mountains (a play on Monteverdi's name), it holds its baroque flavor and allows for some intriguing solo-trumpet embroidery on the main theme. Most successful work is Transformation, by Composer Schuller, who is both the first horn player of the Metropolitan Opera and a sometime player in jazz combos. His tautly constructed piece opens with a wistful theme, gradually begins to swing, gives way to free improvisation and a swelling riff in the wind instruments. All the pieces have their fascinating moments, but they seem...
Contrasts. Though both are sons of old racing drivers, there the similarity ends. Mike Hawthorn drives in devil-may-care style, his husky frame hunched over in the cramped cockpit, a grim scowl on his face. Moody Mike enjoys his cigarettes and whisky, cuts loose occasionally on the trumpet (which he plays with some skill), flies his own plane. He drives solely to win, cares little about how he accomplishes it ("I haven't bloody well got a driving style"). Hawthorn started racing motor bikes as a teen-ager in Farnham, Surrey, where his father ran a garage. Driving...
...Heights section of Los Angeles. He grew up, among Italian and Mexican families, in a neighborhood dotted with rundown homes. But the Meserveys were a close-knit unit. Bob's mother fed her family on music, and as a small boy Bob learned to play piano, drums, guitar, trumpet and harmonica. Neither Bob nor his younger brother Frank Jr. ever got into trouble, even though they ran about and made mischief with the neighborhood Mexican boys twice their ages...
...powerful. 260,000-member American Federation of Musicians, which has long laid down musicians' terms for the scoring of motion pictures in Hollywood, as well as most other commercial music, last week lost control of film scoring to an upstart splinter group headed by a studio trumpet player. In an election sponsored by the National Labor Relations Board. Hollywood's film musicians chose the rebel Musicians Guild of America as their bargaining agent, by a vote...
...sense of the report," summed up Amsterdam's Roman Catholic daily De Tijd, "comes down to this . . . The great design which was proclaimed like a trumpet call throughout The Netherlands-to make the Papuans ripe for independent activity in all fields-remains a slogan...