Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Yale band member Jed V. Goldstone had on his chest a large button that said "Harvard" with an even larger screw stuck through it. Goldstone said he does not play an instrument, and that his role in the band is essentially wearing his costume...
...suggest how the contrasting voices of men and women might blend. "One can think of the oboe and the clarinet as different," she says. "Yet when they play together, there is a sound that's not either one of them, but it doesn't dissolve the identity of either instrument...
What does America's space program have in common with a soprano saxophone? Quite a lot, when the instrument is played by Jane Ira Bloom, 35, a jazz virtuoso who was the first musician commissioned to create a work for NASA's art program. Witnessing a Discovery shuttle launch close up inspired her to compose a four-part suite entitled Rediscovery, which premiered at Cape Canaveral last fall. Long fascinated by the links between music and motion, Bloom has also composed scores for the famed Pilobolus Dance Theater and the repertory theater at Yale, where she earned a master...
...addition, she said that television played an important part in this process. Calling it an "incredibly powerful...revelation," she cited television as an important instrument in making ordinary Chinese aware of the world situation outside China--especially the revolutions in European communist states...
Inside, the feel of the car is distinctly Japanese. The instrument cluster and analog gauges have a user-friendly design, and there are plenty of storage cubbies, including an oversize glove box. The split-folding rear seats enable the car to carry skis and other long cargo. Perhaps my only significant objection, one that has been noted by other reviewers, is a lack of legroom in the sedan's rear seats...