Word: harped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Brass Bugle. Shaw's background for criticism was his family of amateur musicians: a trombone-playing father, a harp-playing aunt, a mother with a mezzo-soprano voice of "remarkable purity of tone," and an uncle who played the ophicleide, a giant brass bugle. Shaw himself started training to become an operatic baritone, changed his mind, and at 20 began ghosting musical criticism for a London weekly, The Hornet, in conspiracy with his mother's voice teacher named Vandeleur Lee. While Lee posed as the magazine's critic, young Bernard wrote the notices. After a year...
...have tried to achieve an exciting design in architecture as well as allowing the birds as much light and freedom as possible." London critics looked at a model of the angular, chichi aviary and formed their own opinions. Among them: "An attempt to disprove some geometric theorem," "An Aeolian harp gone awry." Said the Guardian: "The idea of a bird in a gilded cage occurred to many...
...play, the change is rather a shock. But she has some wonderful moments and is one of the few actors on the stage who never sacrifics the meaning of her lines to their poetry. Joel Crothers as Romeo has but two strings to his harp: he either smiles the ingenuous smile of a toothpaste advertisement or pouts like a child denied his lollypop. The volume of his voice occasionally rises, but instead of the anger or anguish which should pour out at those moments, there comes merely a trickle of peevishness...
...classic twelve-tone row introduced by the late Arnold Sohoenberg. Last night's concert of New Music was the work of five young European composers whose music, not unexpectedly, conforms to neither of the two extremes. The pieces presented were variously scored for voice, piano, flute, harp, stereo tape and a truly staggering assortment of percussion instruments which included both Chinese blocks and Victorian stained glass. The music and the instruments were often difficult to listen to, and just as often intriguingly interesting...
...stereo tape. The tape inedium offers the composer a chance to shape his sound as he proceeds, and Mr. Moderna's final decisions are quite obviously the result of considerable experimentation. The program opened with the World Premiere of the Bulgarian composer Andre Boucourechliev's Concertants for piano, harp, flute and every percussion instrument on the stage except the Victorian stained glass...