Word: guitars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Beethoven with Guitar Strings. In one camp, Goldberg assembled 14 violinists and a flutist, a piano with 19 keys missing, and a harmonium. Salvaging and pasting together scraps of toilet paper and margins from book leaves, and writing with only a tip of lead from a pencil, Goldberg scored from memory the entire Beethoven Violin Concerto for his little orchestra. He gave the woodwind and bass parts to the harmonium, and gave the piano "all the noise of an orchestra...
...more bows for the fiddles, the prisoners surreptitiously plucked strands from the tail of the horse that pulled their food cart at mealtimes. How did his orchestra sound? "Well, not like the New York Philharmonic." How was the violin he played himself? "Fine," said Violinist Goldberg, "except it had guitar strings...
Among those musically present were Hoagy Dunham on Piano, Dave Sutherland and his guitar. Walt Gifford with a set of drumsticks, Bruce Elwell on the trumpet, Oliver Taylor on the clarinet, Herb Levin on bass, and Larry Eanet, a formidable man on both trombone and piano...
...group is composed of Larry Eanet '52, trombone; Hoagy Dunham '52, bass; Dave Sutherland '50, guitar; Walt Gifford '52, drums; Bruce Elwell, Milton Academy, trumpet; Oliver Taylor, Belmont Hills School, clarinet; and Barbara Leacock, Wellesley, vocalist...
...Symbol. By an ironic twist, the sergeant's song became the favorite of Pancho Villa's men, not of Carranza's army, where it was born. For years, a guitar-strumming mariachi had only to play Adelita in the company of a Carrancista to get his guitar strings shot off. Carranza won the war, but Adelita has long since won the battle of the mariachi bands. Today, when a group of paunchy old boys gather in a cantina for an evening-Indians who robbed with Zapata, green-eyed Chihuahuans who followed Felipe Angeles, tall-talking Sonorans...