Word: gamba
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...than usual for these works. Simpson's cello playing was especially sensitive and powerful, coaxing a wonderful resonance from the instrument. When the fantasias are done by viols, the blend of sound can be excruciatingly monotonous. At the same time, there are advantages to original instruments: a viola da gamba's tuning is different from a cello's and the notes it plays on open strings can change the shading of tonality greatly...
...were, of course, some problems with the piece. The other soloists were not up to the quality of Sorensen, Hester, and Wilson; their performances ranged from adequate to bad. The strings of the second orchestra, excepting the cello, were out of shape, seemingly under-rehearsed. But the viola da gamba and flute solos, the latter especially, were remarkably well-handled and most of the orchestra played nicely...
...French crews have a much pleasanter home. They are housed in the ultramodern Hotel Gamba, where they spend their off-duty time devouring expensive meals ($25 and up) and socking away wine at $15 a bottle. Clad in soiled shorts and sweat-stained shirts, their bare feet stuck into rubber Japanese zori, they look to be a much scruffier lot than the colonial swells at the Rèsidence. They are much more close-mouthed as well. All attempts to start conversations fail; their thin, long-nosed Gallic faces remain blank...
Doug Hardin, the captain, is a Group II quantum chemist who play an instrument called the viola da Gamba in a Baroque trio. He spent half of last summer working for the Atomic Energy Commission and half training with the U.S. Olympic Team at South Lake Tahoe, Calif. Doug likes the poetry and art of William Blake and has filled the walls of his Winthrop House room with prints of Blakian angels and devils. "Dauntless Doug," as Coach McCurdy calls him, is the team's foremost expert on the philosophy and psychology of running...
...Leonard Bernstein's televised Young People's Concerts, he started on a career of recitals and solo stints with major orchestras. This required him to pad out the skimpy repertory for bass by transcribing the music of other instruments, from the archaic viola da gamba to the flute. More recently, composers such as Alec Wilder and Hans Werner Henze have begun to recognize his uniqueness by writing new pieces...