Word: drumming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...various times, the President sucked on gumdrops to ease a hoarse throat, threw a high school band off key by marching into its midst to autograph the bass drum and led his own cheers with the help of a bullhorn, crying: "All the way with L.B.J...
...faith that look backward musically to Handel and forward to Beethoven. Rafael Kubelik and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Chorus perform the superb work so deliberately that it seems staid at first but builds slowly to an impressive climax in the Agnus Dei, with its insistent rolls of drums that give the work its popular title, the Paukenmesse or Drum Mass...
...barely moist," he reported to the crowd), and bounded on to the twin-engined-plane test. The red, white and black Aztec swooped without a tremor to the skies, made a landing the pilot's mother called "soft as a marshmallow," and was welcomed to earth by a drum-and-bugle corps that sounded a fast fanfare. Gregory fidgeted; a bystander, he said, had fiddled with the plane's gasoline tank cap, but "there was nothing to worry about, I probably only lost two or three gallons...
Every time $1,000,000 worth of tickets was sold, a drawing was staged-and every one naturally produced a gratifying set of stories, pictures and lists in the newspapers. The 333,334 tickets were packed into a great transparent drum. A smaller drum contained the names of the 332 horses nominated for the sweepstakes. One by one, in full view of an audience, beautiful girls drew one ticket from each drum, thereby matching each horse with a lucky ticket holder-the odds in favor of being lucky, obviously, were slightly less than one in a thousand...
Fish in Bowls. As the Kontakte musical score-a mixture of taped airport drones, traffic noise, radio static, mixed in with homemade sounds from drum, piano, saxophone and cello-unwinds, the performers follow carefully drawn stage directions. At 48 minutes sharp, for instance, the percussionist is instructed to "feed all animals, fish in bowls, birds and/or fowl in cages or wooden crates. A stuffed bird in cage is also fed." The director is told "to enter with an ape or with a pack of dogs on leash." At 68 minutes, the painter is instructed to "begin throwing nails on magnetic...