Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...background is pleasant enough, though it certainly cannot be accused of subtlety (but, then, neither can Mendelssohn's marvelous score). I do wish he had not had recourse, for the shimmering fairies, to the vibraphone; this is too easy, and I cannot rid myself of the feeling that the instrument is inherently vulgar. Susa's score does not come up to the one Marc Blitzstein wrote for the 1958 production. (It is sadly ironic that Blitzstein and director Jack Landau, who contributed so much to the joyous success of the earlier show, have both since become victims of bizarre, brutal...
...background is pleasant enough, though it certainly cannot be accused of subtlety (but, then, neither can Mendelssohn's marvelous score). I do wish he had not had recourse, for the shimmering fairies, to the vibraphone; this is too easy, and I cannot rid myself of the feeling that the instrument is inherently vulgar. Susa's score does not come up to the one Marc Blitzstein wrote for the 1958 production. (It is sadly ironic that Blitzstein and director Jack Landau, who contributed so much to the joyous success of the earlier show, have both since become victims of bizarre, brutal...
...simply sleep. Onstage in the 7,000-seat arena, an English group called The Who set off smoke bombs, smashed a guitar and kicked over their drums. American Singer Jimi Hendrix topped that by plucking his guitar strings with his teeth, and for an encore set the entire instrument on fire...
...Manhattan's Lincoln Center-his first appearance with the Philharmonic in more than 20 years. His performances of Rumanian Fantasy for Harmonica and Orchestra, written for him in 1956 by Rumanian-born Composer Francis Chagrin, were worth the wait. As his hands fluttered and curved expressively around the instrument, his reedy, plangent tone skittered through Chagrin's melodic score like something sprung from the wedding of an oboe with a gypsy fiddle. Last week Adler made one of his rare TV appearances, playing his beguiling transcription of the gavotte from Bach's Partita No. 3 for unaccompanied...
...research, the company invaded the rich pharmaceutical field by marketing an antiflu drug named Symmetrel, which can be taken orally as either a pill or syrup. Only two weeks ago, the company introduced a recording tape aimed at the multimillion-dollar computer, television-broadcast and instrument markets. Called Crolyn, the patented tape uses chromium dioxide as its magnetic medium in place of conventional iron oxide. Du Pont says that the chromium dioxide tape not only holds twice as much information per inch as ordinary tape but reproduces high-frequency signals with greater fidelity...