Word: brass
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...last--a classy Christmas album. Von Otter, the best of all possible mezzo-sopranos, has put together a kaleidoscopically varied program of pop, jazz, classical and folk songs accompanied by an equally diverse instrumental ensemble (accordion, marimba, guitar, synthesizers, a brass quintet--you name it, she's got it). Every number, be it Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, O Come, All Ye Faithful or Benjamin Britten's Corpus Christi Carol, is sung with stylish grace and disarming sincerity. And unlike most classical singers, Von Otter knows how to make a pop tune swing...
...concert they held with the San Francisco Symphony last April. It's a risky experiment, but the double disc, which sprawls over 21 tracks, shows that the gambit paid off. The sheer lyrical power of the orchestra blends seamlessly with Metallica's music to staggering effect, as the booming brass and ghostly strings give songs like "Wherever I May Roam" and "For Whom the Bell Tolls" eerie new dimensions. Blistering epics like "Bleeding Me" and "The Outlaw Torn" become even more grandiose in scale, while melodic ballads such as "Until It Sleeps" and "Nothing Else Matters" are made even more...
Sometimes you have to lose to come out a winner, and no one knows this better than the brass at Dow Corning, one of the makers of the now-infamous silicone breast implant. In a preliminary statement, a federal judge announced Tuesday that Dow Corning will pay $4.5 billion in order to come out of bankruptcy - a figure that includes $3.2 billion in damages to women who claim they were injured by the chemical giant's negligence. "This is one of the great cases of product liability in American legal history," says TIME senior writer Adam Cohen. "The whole case...
...brass at Fidelity will cry foul, as may the entire mutual-fund industry, which is in sore need of a new superstar. But here goes, anyway: Give it up, Peter Lynch. This stuff about never having worked on a computer and wanting little to do with technology stocks is stale. Very stale. You've got good company in Warren Buffett, another totemic technophobe. And I'm not saying to load up exclusively on tech stocks. But it's plain silly to encourage plain folks to avoid them. They're not that difficult to understand. If you can figure out Maytag...
...head yet sophisticated enough to instantly trigger one's imagination is a minor miracle, not to be overlooked. It calls for a precise interplay of uncomplicated but carefully wrought elements: the tensely chromatic rise and fall of the bass, the edgy twang of crafty appoggiaturas, wailing brass punctuation in all the right places. It's just so. What the music doesn't need is a techno beat underneath...