Word: drumming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Equus there are no ambiguities. Together with Director John Dexter and Set Designer John Napier, Shaffer has fashioned a spectacle dominated by horses: actors who bear on their heads equine masks and on their feet wear 6-in.-high hoofs that thud with the menace of a jungle drum. Shaffer has been fascinated by mask drama ever since he wrote The Royal Hunt of the Sun, about the conquistador Pizarro in Peru. At his suggestion, Inca funeral masks were worn by the Indians in the last act. "Nobody could think how they should look during Pizarro's speech over...
There should be no need to conjure up memories of past Crimson successes to drum up support for this year's team. A victory, not a 29-29 tie, is what Harvard wants in the Yale game this year...
Moriarty, who won acclaim in the baseball film Bang the Drum Slowly and captured last season's Tony Award for his portrayal of a homosexual prostitute in Find Your Way Home, is an actor who conceptualizes a role. One can scarcely imagine him on a horse. But he is a spider of infinite guile and smarmy villainy. Moriarty has an uncanny capacity to disturb. It is part of his stage presence and power. One feels that others do his bidding because they are terribly afraid not to. Before achieving the throne he seems neurasthenically preoccupied, but at his coronation...
Leroy Anderson '29, the band's first full-time student conductor, will be back to play the big bass drum. The concert band will also play one of Anderson's original works...
...addition to the drum, the concert will feature the world's second-largest tuba, standing seven and one-half feet tall and weighing 200 pounds...