Word: glockenspiel
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...minute Concerto for Percussion and Orchestra. Using 64 percussion instruments, the concerto featured five percussion "soloists," whose duties proved so complex that they had to dart about the stage. Among the instruments employed: Chinese gongs, temple blocks, tom-toms, marimbas, vibraphones, Pyrex mixing bowls, a xylophone, a celesta, a glockenspiel. For all its fearsome instrumentation, the concerto proved to be one of Cowell's more immediately appealing works - alternately delicate and boisterous, crosshatched with curiously shifting rhythms. Less stark than the works of Cowell's youth (when he liked to roll the piano keys with his fore arms...
Down the Bunghole? The grind of pleasure never let up for the next two days. In Mettenheim for the presentation of the golden barrel, the newsmen blearily watched a maypole dance, listened to a glockenspiel band, and sipped beer. When the local burghers clapped at a speech by the U.S. consul general, one Pabst man said incredulously: "For God's sake, these people are taking us seriously...
...minute work was strident, percussion-packed (including chromatic timpani, gavel, tubular bells, xylophone, glockenspiel and gong), full of rhythmic and harmonic shocks. It all came pouring from his inner self, says Diamond, in a kind of continuous stream of consciousness. Now he would like to return to his home in Florence, Italy to pursue his meandering musical consciousness as time and money permit. This winter, however, his fortunes were so low that he was forced to take a job fiddling in the pit orchestra of Leonard Bernstein's Candide...
...cashmere beside the tweedy textures of Tenor Jan Peerce and Baritone Leonard Warren. Her phrasing was always neat and true; in lyrical passages her voice floated with never an edge. In Verdi's showy old coloratura bits, e.g., Caro Nome, it glittered clear and bright as a glockenspiel in a football band. She was nervous at first-her vibrato was fast as a canary's, and she heaved her pretty bosom with each breath, which is not regarded good form-but she stopped the show several times, and the bravos rang out like pistol shots when she finished...
...before the intermission, to break the pace, the band selected three young ladies from the audience for a band conducting contest. A Miss Ceil Saperstein, from N.Y.U., led the group at a mad pace to win the contest. She was awarded a Band album despite ugly rumblings from the glockenspiel section, one of whose members wanted to be the prize...