Word: instrument
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...guitar-playing duties, and share the singing with Colleen MacDonald, who also plays bass. Dan Lech provides the backbone of the band on drums. What distinguishes Buttercup from run-of-the-mill alternapoppers is Tim Obetz's slide guitar playing. The full-bodied twang he evokes from the instrument superbly compliments Buni and Leahy's guitar work, but Obetz often plays the melody. This gives some tunes a bluesy, country-tinged character as often rambunctious as it is pliant and melancholy. Slide guitar is a refreshing addition to the traditional lineup of dual guitars, vocals, bass and drums...
...soloist of a concerto, the string quartet is a curious innovation, placing an entire choir of instruments against the orchestra. This form poses some practical problems: the challenge is making the soloists truly stand apart from the orchestral strings. The concerto traditionally accomplishes this in three ways: alternation of solo and orchestral passages; dynamic, registral, and rhythmic isolation; and use of the instrument's individual tone color. This last method, in the case of the string quartet, is the hardest: the quartet's tone color is easily blanketed by the larger orchestral strings. The genre of concerto depends upon contrast...
delicate enough instrument to decide who could be sentenced to death by the state," the spokesperson said...
...organists are just normal people--with an unusual extracurricular interest for '90s Harvard. Forge notes many Harvard Faculty are organists--from Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Ethics, Rev. Peter J. Gomes to Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles--but it seems the instrument's allure has for the most part eluded Generation...
...orbits or so, the crew kept up this orbital hit-or-miss, searching doggedly for the sun. Finally, at well after midnight on the morning of June 26, an instrument panel flickered to life, then a cabin light. Behind the walls, a fan started to whir, and a pump started to pump. One system at a time, instrument by instrument, the battered Mir recovered. By 2 a.m., more than 14 hours after it had sustained an injury that should have claimed its life, the world's only operating space station was working again...