Word: drumming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...music in Israel is difficult. As one Israeli explained to me, "All the good singers go to America to make records and money." Folk music is the national idiom; we are fortunate in being the beneficiaries of the high quality of the export product. Hillel and Aviva play the drum and flute (recorder) in a concert on Elektra records which is a very fine introduction to the genre of composed folk songs. (The Dudaim (whose name comes from doo- dah which is added a Hebrew suffix indicating more-than-one) are a duo, and they sing of Israel...
...sunk deep into slumped shoulders, and the pale blue eyes were watery and weary when Sir Winston Churchill tottered slowly into the House of Commons as Big Ben struck 3 on his 87th birthday. "Hear, hear, hear," rolled out the traditional Commons welcome, until it beat like a native drum. Then came a few most unparliamentary hurrahs (with nary a reprimand from the bewigged Speaker), and the "right honorable member for Woodford" slumped into his lifetime front-bench seat. A government spokesman saluted the occasion, and the Loyal Opposition, represented by Hugh Gaitskell himself, continued in gracious kind. Then...
...like designing an airplane by copying a bird's feathers. His machine does not depend on sound frequencies; it recognizes words by listening for their "asymmetry," an esoteric quality of speech that human ears cannot distinguish but that Shoebox finds as clear as the beat of a bass drum...
...Flower Drum Song (Universal-International), a $4,000,000, 133-minute film version of the Broadway musical by Rodgers and Hammerstein, offers the U.S. moviegoer roughly the same sensation he would get if he sat down with a single pair of chopsticks before a tun of Sook Muy Dahn Faah Tong...
...Flower Drum Song is clearly photographed, and brightly colored. But the songs-except for a charming little villanelle sung by Actress Umeki-don't exactly ring the gong, and Choreographer Hermes Pan has apparently reworked some routines from Chu Chin Chow. Also, moviegoers may be disturbed to find that most of the Chinese characters in the picture are played by actors of various other Oriental extractions. Honest, fellows, they really don't all look alike...