Word: drum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...exist only as a single line of notes with no further indications. The group chosen was played, as intended, by whatever instrumentalists happened to be available, in this case Gillian Adams and Chester Pearlman, recorders; Mary Davidoff, viol; and John Hollander, lute. The added improvised percussion parts for hand drum, tamborine and triangle were totally authentic. The players also performed two of the earliest polyphonic instrumental pieces...
Pioneering as the first American jazz bandleader ever to go jamming around Israel, drum-busting Vibraharpist Lionel Hampton tortured his tom-toms in Tel Aviv, had frenetic listeners in the aisles stomping out the Horn, Israel's most popular folk dance. After one concert, during which some 100 cops hooked arms to bar gate-crashers from the hall, rhythm-happy Hampton laid down his drumsticks and gasped: "Man, in a country that's younger than jazz itself, these Israeli cats have sure growed fast...
...University Band has ordered a new bass drum, and expects delivery by the beginning of May. The 72-by-28-inch drum will be the largest in the United States, thus regaining the distinction temporarily lost to the University of Florida...
Competitive bids between manufacturers have reduced the cost of the drum from an original estimate of over $1,600 to around $1,000. The new drum will be built by Slingerland, Inc., of Chicago...
When Walt Whitman's Drum Taps, a book of Civil War poems, appeared in 1865, a 22-year-old reviewer named Henry James laced into the good grey poet. "To become adopted as a national poet," wrote young James, "it is not enough to discard everything in particular and to accept everything in general, to amass crudity upon crudity, to discharge the undigested contents of your blotting-book into the lap of the public. You must respect the public which you address; for it has taste, if you have not." To which Whitman, for once laconic, snorted: "Feathers...