Word: cymbal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...guerrilla army in the Philippines. As deputy chief of one of the commands, he had 28,000 men under him. He kept up his music by playing the pianos he found occasionally in Filipino homes, and by learning to play the native agong (a cross between a cymbal and a drum). He has taken up piano and composition again and is currently working on a string quartet...
...bronze percussion instruments-which has the simple gravity of a Bach sarabande. A Sundanese love lament called Drizzling Rain, accompanied on a zither, carries its grief through a long series of delicate ornamentations. An ancient song of the Batak hill people, accompanied by a wooden xylophone and split cymbal, is strikingly like the melancholy music of Provencal shepherds...
...leave it idle in his left hand. He sings along with the strings as loud if not louder than Toscanini does. He shushes for pianissimos, exhorts for fortissimes. Sometimes he depicts the music physically, but where other conductors often merely imitate the motions of a violin bow or a cymbal, (something which has no value for anyone except the audience) Munch attempts to portray the spirit of the interpretation he is seeking (something which can be of considerable value to the musicians as well as to the audience...
Married. Dr. Howard Hanson, 49, Pulitzer Prizewinning conductor-composer (Symphony No. 4, Opus 34, Merry Mount), director of the Eastman School of Music, longtime cymbal-dasher for U.S. composers; and Margaret Elizabeth Nelson, 31, Pittsburgh Junior Leaguer; both for the first time; at Chautauqua...
...stylistic appreciation of scenery. There are also a dirgelike visit to Changsha battle field; illuminating talks with Dr. Sun Fo, "Christian General" Feng Yu-hsiang, WPBoss Wong Wen-hao; ferryboat rides across the dragonlike Yangtze; discourses on the world and its state; days with abbots, poets, children and cymbal-beating actors. Above all, Payne admires and respects China's students and professors, the guardians of the past and the planners of the future, whose great hegira from the coast to the interior never fails to fill him with wonder. ". . . All that is best io China is crystallized in their...