Word: instrumentality
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Respecting the integrity and historical circumstances of the early music she promotes, Bartoli has collaborated extensively with several outstanding period instrument orchestras, like the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, whose aim is to adhere as closely as possible to the musical conditions in which early music was originally conceived and performed...
About the piano: it’s a seemingly ancient little instrument which the Walkmen famously tote around from show to show, and it maintains a nearly comic presence on stage. It sounds part Fisher-Price toy, part tinkly player piano, and looks like the centerpiece of some 19th century saloon. But it comes in handy for the Walkmen, who use it centrally in “We’ve Been Had,” the first song written for Everyone Who Pretended To Like Me and the first single, familiar to some from the Saturn Ion car commercial...
...boob boo-boo. It was a commercial for Pepsi-Cola called Crossroads. In the spot it was 1953, and a young Jimi Hendrix was trying to choose between Coke and Pepsi-and, simultaneously, between an accordion and a guitar. You know which drink he picked, and you know which instrument he picked up. If you've got modern blood in your veins-and if, like me, you can remember as if it were yesterday the first time you heard the thrilling six notes that start Hey Joe -you're glad that Hendrix did what he did. But Lawrence Welk...
...describes the Sky Survey instrument Horowitz already uses as “typically Paul—typically creative and inventive...
...course, no one can be sad to see Adams deprived of its instrument of exclusivity—nor, frankly, is Kirkland’s housing-lottery superiority complex particularly palatable. But there are right ways to deal with problems among the Houses, and Mather has very clearly picked the wrong way. This reckless, unjustified round of attacks cannot stand...