Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Christmas card-its white expanse gleaming in the shadows, the mellow, warm light from its windows shining through the ancient, weatherbeaten oaks and maples. Poinsettias replaced the ferns in the hallways; wreaths of spruce and pine cones appeared in the windows; a spray of mistletoe hung from the big brass light in the lobby, over the Presidential seal embedded in the stone floor...
...drawing power, but not all. Andre Kostelanetz is a competent stick-waver, and on records and the radio he plays, not symphonies and not jazz, but the kind of music plain people really like: his arrangements of "standard" pieces, Victor Herbert and such, beautifully done up in balanced brass, reed and string tones, as rich as a lobster Newburg well laced with sherry. In summer, the team of Pons & Kostelanetz earns $5,500 a night. The 300,000 people they have attracted to Chicago's Grant Park of a summer evening is the biggest crowd ever assembled to hear...
...arty Sierra Madre, Los Angeles suburb, artists painted models in the streets. In front of Portland, Ore.'s handsome neo-Georgian Museum of Art (its façade draped with red, white and blue bunting) a WPA brass band trumpeted God Bless America, while museum attendance jumped from 75 to 400 daily. Detroit's sedate Institute of Arts put on a price-marked display of Grand Rapids furniture. In Lewisburg, Pa. pastors of all denominations and an esthete named Prof. B. Gummo sermonized and lectured on "What is Art?" In Chicago a streamlined sound truck of abstract design...
...priced in U. S. ports at 10? a pound, it cannot compete with domestic when domestic is less than 14?. First to plump for tariff reduction in the present emergency was one of the trade's stanchest Willkiemen, blond, conservative Fabricator C. Donald Dallas of Revere Copper and Brass, Inc. On the very September day that Wendell Willkie spoke against low copper prices in Anaconda's Butte, Fabricator Dallas spoke for a 12? ceiling in order to head off an inflationary spiral. He advised dropping the tariff altogether when the price got above 12?. Below 9?, he would...
...tune sung by Helen Forest, who seems to be more and more influenced by Billie Holiday. The arrangement is very good; ideal for dancing. Henderson is typical orchestration by the arranger for whom the tune was named. Very unpretentious stuff, but the kind that really kicks. Scoring of brass against reed passages reminiscent of the famous chase chorus on Stealin' Apples. Benny's clarinet stars here. The other coupling is by the Sextet, and gives the soloists more opportunity to get off. Tunes are Royal Garden Blues and Wholly Cats. Cootie Williams' muted growl horn stars on Royal Garden...