Word: harped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...civil war was in the air. At this dangerous juncture Jong Mong-ju, a minister loyal to the old dynasty, paid a courtesy call on King Taejo, the father of Yi Bang-won, the leading strategist of the opposition. His host's son, in salutation, took up a harp and sang this sinister and seditious ditty...
Cornell Coach Tom Harp had called on third-stringer Bill Hinman to try to move his team, and Hinman almost succeeded in leading Cornell to a last-minute score. After Cornell took over Hinman completed a 25-yard pass to Fullerton on first down, and then completed thrown of six and nine yards...
...Gospeling Psalm. The work opened with the first two verses of Psalm 108: "Urah, hanevel, v'chinor! A-irah shachar! [Awake, psaltery and harp! I will rouse the dawn!]" on a crisp accented chord in 6/4 time. A swelling chorus that any director would snap up for a Biblical movie epic passed into a hot-gospeling rendition of Psalm 100 ("Make a joyful noise unto the Lord"). Psalm 23 ("The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want") was a pastoral solo sung by a boy alto till the chorus interrupted with "Why do the nations rage...
...first is a blue sky with a few fair-weather clouds and a couple of trees. We hear John Duffy's music for brass, xylophone, tambourine and harp--and it sounds somewhat Spanish, curiously. A big wagon rolls into sight and disgorges an itinerant acting troupe, which takes bows before the audience. This could make sense, but Anthony has done away entirely with the Induction scenes, in which Shakespeare makes clear that Shrew is an entertainment within an entertainment...
...strings, and finally by the oboe and the rest of the orchestra. The tension builds slowly with only momentary relief, until the audience almost aches for it to end. But it continues until the trumpets recall the melody of the first movement at the climax, and the violins harp, and woodwinds end it, sweetly satisfied...