Word: brassing
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...real estate is breathtaking. Glowing Victorian brass fittings, red oak woodwork and frosted glass set off the Pavilion, a graceful three-level gallery of restaurants and shops in a vast sunlit atrium that rises 215 ft. and has a floor two-thirds the length of a football field. Visible through the distant glass roof, past floors of balconied corridors where 800 federal workers have offices, is a dramatic view: the 315-ft. clock tower that presides loftily over Pennsylvania Avenue. Developer Charles Evans Jr., whose firm also was part of the team that refurbished the nation's oldest covered...
...addition, to complement the extraordinary plentitude and quality of footage, the producers conducted over 300 interviews, 100 in Vietnam. Interviewees include top brass from the period in North and South Vietnam and America, and only former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, Richard Nixon and South Vietnamese ex-President Nguyen Van Thieu refused interviews. Equally important are the discussions with numerous combatants and non-combatants on both sides...
...Slowly they start to spin, hop and shuffle in smooth synchronicity. Out of huge loudspeakers suspended from the ceiling comes the foghorn blast of a low note-like the opening of Strauss's Also sprach Zarathustra-played by a synthesizer; later the music rises in a blast of brass to a Brucknerian apotheosis...
...most impressive element is Adams' score, a synthesized 24-track tape whose only "live" sounds are the brass near the end. Bearing the independent title Light over Water, the music is cast in six mostly continuous movements. The piece reaches a new level of complexity for a minimalist work, moving away from the school's strict repetition and steady-rhythm tenets toward something more expansive and formally flexible...
...started strolling away from the Monument grounds on the way to the Memorial. Hundreds, then thousands and tens of thousands, followed. Constitution and Independence Avenues were transformed into oceans of bobbing placards. Some marchers wept as they walked; the faces of many more gleamed with happiness. There were no brass bands. There was little shouting or singing. Instead, for over an hour and a half, there was the sound of thousands of feet shuffling toward the temple erected in the name of Abraham Lincoln...