Word: cymbal
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...last week from London came gossipy reports of the jokes he told during his recent visit there. Once a Negro preacher introduced him to his Negro congregation as "a sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal." Once a woman parishioner, disagreeing with him, shouted angrily: "I am a Christian woman which it is evident...
...Monday, known to so many human beings as wash day, and to so many more as just another week, brings compensations. And today, in particular, should be heralded with clash of cymbal and blare of trumpet. Today opens the Pops...
Tired pianists who have practiced all day until their fingers are fagots of bruised nerves and the sound of their instrument echoes as hollowly to their ears as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal, dream, when asleep, of the perfect piano. They seat themselves before a suave and sable instrument that is pliant to their will as none that mortal hands have ever fingered; it speaks for them with a mighty organ voice; notes, at the command of their subconscious will, sing with the pomp of trumpets or the tenderness of fiddles, yet it is no pipe organ that they...
...which was one starring the diver, Annette Kellerman. The beauty and grace of her performance could not be equalled outside of the sculpture of classic Greece and yet even this was marred by the taint of realism. Whenever she would strike the water someone behind the screen struck a cymbal to represent the splash...
...Walter Damrosch was born in Breslau, Silesia, came to the U. S. when he was nine. His father, also a conductor, was a friend of Liszt, Wagner, von Billow, Auer, Rubinstein; he led an orchestra in which Walter made his first public appearance-as a cymbal player. The youth was so nervous that he could not lift the cymbals. Later he played in his father's orchestra with the second violins to learn how instrument players follow the conductor's beat. Recently he owned the largest private music library in the world, presented it to the New York...