Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...organ concertos. It was written specifically for harp or organ, so that it is not merely a transcription, but a work composed by Handel with the harp actually in mind. How Handel treats the harp in this concerto, and how the harp compares with the organ as a virtuoso instrument for concerto, are interesting questions which should be answered Monday night...
...shifted to the right, and when it is receding they are shifted to the left. At times when Mars is fast approaching or retreating, the Doppler effect should pull the Martian vapor lines away from the earth lines enough to make them visible in Dr. Adams' delicate instrument. But they failed to appear...
...laboratories in Camden announced a new, simpler electron microscope for educational and research laboratories. Like earlier and bigger models, the new instrument uses beams of electrons instead of beams of light for magnification, furnishes enlargements up to 100,000 diameters, but it can be plugged into an ordinary electric outlet...
...instrument that I know of loses so much in reproduction as the harpsichord. Its particular needly quality becomes merely stringy-sounding when transferred to records. Which is one reason why the Longy School concerts make such a rewarding series, and they are made even more rewarding by the skill and musicianship of Erwin Bodky. The concert of classical chamber-music at the Germanic Museum the other night demonstrated this most beautifully, and there will be future concerts of the same type, which I shall try to mention in advance. Meanwhile, the Stradivarius Quartet has scheduled a program at the Germanic...
Fighting mad, Antonescu took to the radio, slapped down an ultimatum to the rebels: "We must re-establish order and tranquillity in 24 hours, because I have not been and I do not want to be tomorrow the instrument of tyranny, or the bridge leading to anarchy." Troops marched into Bucharest's Greek colony, arrested ten of its leaders as hostages for Major Döring's assassin...