Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...play Bach's Klavierubung until then." As an afterthought he added, "Come on down front so you'll be nearer the music." Hundreds did, sitting in front of the stage and in the aisles while Newman's hands and feet flew over his instrument's quadruple keyboard and pedals...
...chief instrument of Warsaw's policy of being friendly to Poles abroad is the Society for Liaison with Polonia, which sponsors an expanding number of cultural and educational exchanges, historical celebrations, tourist attractions and retirement plans. In effect, the Polonia Society's programs are a giant, state-run public relations venture, which the Polish government uses to make its peace with the approximately 1,500,000 native-born Poles living in other countries-many of whom fled when the Communists gained power after World War II-and the millions more of Polish descent whose parents and grandparents were...
...more than adequate. He's also a very fine country rock guitarist, a genre which demands special talents, particularly the ability to refrain from holding each note, blues style. His work on "Good Feeling," the band's most recent single, was excellent, remaining in the upper register of his instrument, but neither repetitive nor boring--a considerable feat considering the rock guitarist's preoccupation with high notes. With him, "C'mon," once a country-styled, light opening tune, becomes slower, much more chord-oriented, in short, more rock 'n' roll...
...sound. To add to its crudity, the drums are mixed very prominently; when you hear a song, the drums while not completely separated on your stereo, are always very loud, and "up front" in the total sound. Stewart adds to this many layers of acoustic and electric instruments playing more or less the same thing. The resulting morass of instrumentation is not muddy, possibly because each instrument is clearly recorded. Instead, there seems to be the slightest discrepancy in overdubbing, and in timing, which leads to the one-take feeling inherent in Stewart's solo work. It harkens back...
...over his speech. As the author of the controversial 1963 book Honest to God, he has been through it all before. "I was raising the point," he explained in a letter to the Times of London, "how most effectively do we protect the young? Is it by the blunt instrument of declaring all early teen-age sex criminal, then discrediting the law by not enforcing it? This does not seem to be very successful in preventing sex relations among young people...