Word: cymbal
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...Burton's mallets dance over the vibes knocking out masterly, improvised melodies. Occasionally he forays into the fugue, as in Lines, where Larry Coryell's country-blues guitar plays an especially effective counterpoint. Steve Swallow on bass provides a mellow underpinning, while Drummer Bobby Moses adds cymbal-splashes of color. On swiftly paced tracks such as June the 15, 1967, their rapid notes become a braided stream of bright sound...
...composed and the most colorfully exciting offering. Beginning with a stunning passage for bassoons, saxes, and solo horn, the composition also contains a lovely oboe solo, and an evocative passage for flute, piccolo, and bass drum side. In addition, Persichetti calls for hammer and anvil, four timpani, xylophone, sizzle cymbal, ratchet, marimba sticks on suspended cymbals, and bare hands on snare drum. At the end of the composition, all these returned in a brilliant overall unity...
...shape of a composition in the air with gracefully masculine gestures. "I can feel the audience through my back as if I were facing them," he says, and he is the first to admit that some of his gyrations are for the audience's benefit. "For a cymbal crash, the player will come in anyway, but if I give a big gesture, it just adds to the high point. Or in the development section of Beethoven's Eroica symphony, I'm not sure the audience is hearing everything-the different modulations, the canonic effects. I point...
...most of the other Wagner excerpts that turn up in the concert hall - came through with a good deal of its innate robustness and exuberance. In some places the strings were overpowered by the brass, and the complex contrapuntal combination of themes was not always clear. The two climactic cymbal clashes at the end, however, came off so perfectly that the player smiled with satisfaction...
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. If I have all the eloquence of men or of angels, but speak without love, I am simply a gong booming or a cymbal clashing...