Word: cymbal
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...wants to match a 1937 Koster triumph (Deanna Durbin and Leopold Stokowski in A Hundred Men and a Girl) with a new musical concoction. Koster outlines the story. A touring symphony orchestra is about to return to New York to put on a charity program "for crippled children." The cymbal player comes down with a contagious disease in Moscow ("We can work out the disease later"), and the whole orchestra is quarantined-all except its Lenny Bernstein-type conductor. He rushes home but cannot find a substitute orchestra and is about to give up. Suddenly, "the president of the charity...
...group, the symphony orchestras of the U.S. are unsurpassed in quality by those of any other nation in the world. Yet today they are in trouble -loud, unavoidable, cymbal-crashing financial trouble. In Buffalo and Rochester, the two Philharmonics are so pressed for funds that they are talking merger; so are the Cincinnati and Indianapolis orchestras. The Detroit Symphony, which has just emerged from a 34-day musicians' strike, is in such economic straits that it may have to disband. "Between 1971 and 1973," predicts Manhattan Fund Raiser Carl Shaver, an expert in orchestral finances, "we stand a very...
...trumpet and Doug Watkins on bass. They play hard-bop tunes (two of which are by now familiar Silver compositions), while Blakey drives them on with a flavoring of calypso or a tight break to emphasize the beat. On InfraRae and Hank's Symphony, his throbbing rolls and cymbal cadences are spotlighted in brief but impeccable solos...
...EYES OF THE BEACON STREET UNION (MGM). Among today's sound-saturated rock groups, The Beacon Street Union is refreshingly rare: it recognizes the existence of twin stereo speakers and utilizes them to separate its music into two compatible components. In the bittersweet My Love Is, soft cymbal brushings flick back and forth between the speakers to tickle the listener's ears. Beautiful Delilah starts with vocals out of the left speaker, then switches to the right, while rhythm and piano ricochet right and left; Sportin' Life, featuring a slow, dusky guitar, is a bluesy sound that...
...impressed the public, critics and professionals alike was the symphony's bold self-assurance, its thoroughly contemporary sound and free use of serial techniques, its lack of conscious imitation-even though it does contain a few friendly pokes at Mahler and Messiaen, "who," says the youngster, "use the cymbal, bass and drum in a vulgar...