Word: harps
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Dallas Symphony and performed under Walter Hendl, Rio Grande proved to be a collection of twelve thematic snippets-A River Created, Desert and Canyon: Texas-Mexico. Soldiers by Firelight-celebrating the river's history and lurid scenery. Composer Bacon's music, liberally scored for piano, vibraphone and harp, illuminates the text and is occasionally brilliantly evocative, e.g., in the tiny, clear sounds of the orchestra accompanying the words "The evening star hung like a drop of water in the sky" following an Indian rain dance. In other sections the music is fragmented by the necessities of text...
...After 7-ft. Wilt Chamberlain and his University of Kansas playmates took a stunning 39-37 beating from Iowa State, Kansas Basketball Coach Dick Harp went into seclusion with a set of chessmen to work out the right moves for the return match. When the Iowa Cyclones came back to Kansas, Chessman Chamberlain slipped out from his post position under the basket, pulled three Iowa defensemen to the foul line with him, gave his teammates room to drive in for scores. While "Wilt the Stilt" settled for only four field goals, Kansas won 75-64, all but took possession...
...spite his interest in the neighbor's piano, the Bernsteins never had a musical instrument in the house until Lennie was ten. Then they were saddled with a "brown upright horror" that Aunt Clara wanted to get rid of. To Lennie it sounded like a seraph's harp. His reluctant parents ? who really hoped he might go into the beauty- parlor-supply business ? allowed him to have piano lessons...
Suffering from insomnia in the 24-hour polar daylight, Rees interviewed members of the expedition around the clock. He quizzed Explorer Siple over coffee in the mess, in Siple's quarters, to the accompaniment of recorded harp solos, and out on the trail. Once, caught on a ledge above McMurdo Sound in a howling gale, Siple recalled that a member of the first Scott expedition (1901-04) had been blown to his death from that very spot. "Look," the explorer shouted, "there's his cross." By the time Rees was ready to leave McMurdo Sound for home...
...bulky, parka-clad man paused in the hatch of the transport plane and reached back for the duffel bags handed up by a friend. In them were some of his most prized possessions: dozens of tape recordings of South Pacific music, Beethoven sonatas, harp solos. The big man waved goodbye. "See you in 1958," said Paul Siple, 47, a geographer and polar explorer from Arlington, Va. Then he flew off from the U.S. Navy base at McMurdo Sound in the antarctic for a 14-month stay at the most isolated community on earth...