Word: trumpets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...finks... As with any good coming-of-age story, non-sequiturs are tailed up like circus elephants. T-Bird's mother shacks up with the Oakland chapter of Hell's Angels. His vengeful father, long split, teaches him philosophy: get even. Somehow he learns to play the trumpet well enough to join a neighborhood Mexican band. He grows six inches in a summer and stops being fat. He takes a job spraying concrete for a construction firm. Loses job. Is last seen swinging a sledge with his dad, breaking truck tires loose from rims. Gets word processor (we guess), writes...
...jazz-inflected scores for movies like A Streetcar Named Desire and The Man with the Golden Arm were breakthroughs. Today the sound of a saxophone wailing in the night is as tired a film noir cliche as the battered fedora--the stuff of Carol Burnett sketches. But Blanchard, a trumpet player and film composer himself, finds new beauty and wit in the originals, fashioning mini-suites from the above-mentioned scores (and others) that shift between cinematic lushness and small-group drive. Blanchard's bruised, lyrical solo on Chinatown is a highlight--a freshly heard cry in the night...
Tired of lunching in Loker? Grab your fly-by, but ditch the atmosphere: the Harvard University Art Museum presents a Midday Organ Recitalwith organist Murray Forbes Somerville and trumpet player John Almeida.Adolphus Busch Hall, 29 Kirkland St. 495-4544. 12:15 p.m. FREE...
Seniors lobbying on behalf of the Development Office proudly trumpet the fact that our gifts, matched by other donors from earlier classes, will go to financial aid in the form of a "Class of '99 Scholarship." But unless the College is about to abandon need-blind admissions, it seems likely that an additional scholarship might only free up dollars for other projects. Moreover, the fact that so many of us are so disinclined to give unrestricted gifts--"Well, if I give, it will be to financial aid," is commonly heard among seniors these days--indicates the general and rightful displeasure...
...done than he will trying much that is new. His willingness to use some of the surplus to pay down the debt speaks to a kind of long-term focus that is the luxury of a lame-duck President. The plan for the next two years seems to be, Trumpet the past; give Gore the future...