Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hindemith is very fond of the strings. Having been a viola player for years, with many concert appearances as soloist and as a member of the Amar String Quartet of which he was a co-founder, he has written several concertos for the instrument of his choice. And his composition for unaccompanied cello demonstrates a comprehensive if weird understanding of this medium...
...would be amazed, as we are, at the weird descriptions of this instrument landing system that appear in our clippings. You'd never think that radio could do such wonderful things...
...comes from the "semantic illiteracy" of using such words as though they had an actual point of reference in the physical world, whereas in fact they are in the same category as the "souls" which savages give to trees, rivers and the like. And since language is the main instrument in regulating social relationships, the result of this word-witchery is to make men's actions also meaningless. Instead of giving souls to trees, modern man, avers Chase, personifies "national honor," "neutrality," "capital," "labor," "corporations." "It would surely be a rollicking sight," he hoots, "to see the Standard...
...instrument, shaped like a four-leaf clover on the end of a stick, for cleaning the nostrils...
...elaborates his ideas in his mind and puts pen to paper only when every detail of the score has been thought out. Once his notes are down on paper, he seldom makes alterations, and has often sent scores to publishers without bothering to try them out on any instrument...