Word: harped
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Cornell, Harvard's opponent this Saturday, turned in an impressive performance in overcoming Colgate, 34 to 0. The "lonely end" offense of rookie coach Tom Harp paid off, with the highly-touted Big Red backfield proving its worth...
...unsuccessful "Add-a-Part" series on 78-r.p.m. disks, decided that the added convenience of LPs might make the idea work. At first, Music Minus One recorded chiefly classical releases, began to rake in the profits when it added jazz. It omits every instrument in the orchestra but the harp, often makes a single piece of music available in several mutations: Schubert's "Trout" Quintet can be bought without piano, violin, viola, cello or bass. The company's bestseller (20,000 copies) is a household nightmare: Rhythm Section Backgrounds for budding vocalists and various instruments. The best classical...
...Darius Milhaud, Eaton himself. Whatever it plays, the ensemble likes to force its instruments to their outer limits. When at tacking modernist music, Eaton, for instance, favors dissonant jumps from one end of the keyboard to the other, violently plucks at the piano's innards to get a harp effect. Smith has developed a technique of aiming his clarinet directly at the piano strings to create weird and ghostly harmonics. A virtuoso on his instrument. Smith also likes to push his clarinet above top C or to engage in a series of strangely manipulated double and triple stoppings...
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...