Word: woodwind
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Their Toes. In the name of quality, Stokowski can winnow the ranks ruthlessly, has already gone through two concertmasters and eleven of the original twelve woodwind players. When one violinist came late to rehearsal, Stokowski ceremoniously pulled out his book and made a big circle around his name. Next day, a replacement was sitting in his chair. He can also be the very soul of charm. Says one musician: "He is like the morning fog. When it lifts, everything is wonderfully lucid and beautiful. When it falls again, he is absolutely inscrutable...
MONSTER (Verve) contains some threadbare titles (Goldfinger, the theme from The Ministers, St. James Infirmary), but the arrangements by Oliver Nelson are highly charged by the most electric of the electronic jazz organists, Jimmy Smith, with the powerful help of a reed and woodwind band...
...second movement, the woodwind solos were outstanding, but the French horns stole the show. Their usual difficulties with intonation and entrances disappeared, and they played in tune, in time, and in tone...
PASTORALES (Columbia). Rustic airs of high spirits and low specific gravity that display the virtuosity of the Philadelphia Woodwind Quintet. Mostly 20th century works, the eight pieces include a folksy fresh Walking Tune by Percy Grainger, a catchy early song by Stravinsky, and some skimmering sketches by Darius Milhaud...
...handsome girl with high cheek bones, liquid eyes, and a voice like the woodwind section of an orchestra, Diana was blessed with good parents. Both her carpenter father and her milliner mother encouraged Diana in her ambition to become an actress, enrolling her in Manhattan's High School of Performing Arts. She sharpened her skill on an enviable series of supporting parts, won awards for her performance in Raisin in the Sun as a zany coed running a high fever in her frontal lobes and raves from the critics for her performance as a whore in last season...