Word: gongs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...moments, the rented studio of San Francisco's station KNBC was filled with the soaring strains of Mahler's Song of the Earth. Then, after three strokes on a bronze gong, a Chinese woman in a richly brocaded gown began speaking Mandarin into a goosenecked microphone. Her message, delivered for the first time just after sunup one morning last week, sped 6,000 miles across the Pacific to pierce the bamboo curtain that surrounds Red China. Radio Free Asia...
Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras No. 1, ChÔros No. 4 & No. 7 (chambergroups, Werner Janssen conducting; Capitol, 2 sides LP). South America's No. 1 composer writes here for such combinations as eight cellos, three horns and a trombone, five woodwinds and two strings and gong. Typical Villa-Lobos: brilliant color and exotic rhythms. Performance and recording: good...
...someone happened to be standing beside the cyclotron when a test was about to begin, "he's have to be deaf dumb, and blind not to be able to do anything about it." First the white lights would go off and red lights would begin to flash. A gong would sound, and just in case these measures were not convincing enough, the operator's voice would boom out a warning over the loud-speaker...
...gong that started the brawl was the gift by Samuel Eliot Morson '08, Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History, of a replica of this first flag...
...Charles C. Cabot, Richard T. Button, Forrest L. Gould, Charles E. Nelson, Paul A. Bidwell, Robert L. Wiley, Edward D. Yost, Francis R. Filosa, William M. Simmons, Rudolph Kass, Martin A. Choolijian, Frank W. Hopkins, Kenneth L. Everett, Richard M. Sandler, Harvey s. Ginsberg, Costas C. Rodis, Edmond J. Gong...