Word: glockenspiels
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...ensemble. . . It takes something extraordinary. . . It takes something extraordinary to inspire college undergraduates these days. It takes something special to get off a death bed and bring down the house as an after-dinner speaker (at a band banquet) with a talk on the Decline and Fall of the Glockenspiel...
...glockenspiel, by the way, inspired one of the better-known of Mal's remarks to the band: "That sounds like an anvil calling its mate." On the eye of the 30th reunion, he came up with another: "It's squad with depth. We should be able to employ both offensive and defensive glockenspiels. The show should be tremendous. In fact, it will probably sound like a dozen factories in action at once...
Percussion in a nearly pristine state, but not nearly so frightening as it might seem from the line-up of instruments (partial roster: three bass drums, seven timpani, three xylophones, a glockenspiel, a gunshot machine and five pebble-filled cocktail shakers). Especially designed for hi-fi fans, but one number (Happy Little Woodpile) has pop possibilities...
...Burgin reserved the humor for the end, probably quite unwittingly. Anyone familiar with Brahms' superb piano quartet could not help but be wary of a Schoenberg orchestration calling for two flutes, a piccolo, three oboes, five clarinets, four bassoons, full brass, timpani, snare drum, bass drum, eymbals, triangle, tambourine, Glockenspiel, xylophone, and strings. At the very best, these extra instruments were entirely superfluous to Brahms' musical intentions. At the worst, which was most of the time, they sounded like something Richard Strauss would have reconsidered even in his most beery moments. The percussion thumped, whanged, crashed, and tinkled; trombones blatted...
...conductor of several amateur and semi-professional orchestras. He has recently written a book on conducting amateur musical groups, and he spent part of the summer leading the Boston Pops Orchestra. Through all these various activities he manages to retain a jolly disposition, disturbed only occasionally by a Glockenspiel or an enemy football manager...