Word: instrumentalization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...direction. In 1973, Presidents Bok and Horner jointly established an Office for the Arts which, although unfamiliar to most undergraduates, organizes special programs through the year, single-handedly runs the dance program, and operates as a fundraiser for the arts. Some students interested in studying dance or a musical instrument during the school year used the office as a referral service to teachers in the Cambridge/Boston area...
...fact that language is an instrument of power - whatever the current doubts about its effectiveness - should make Americans more attentive to it, not less. To a great extent, a people's language is its civilization, the collective storage system of a tribe. Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who knows something of the totalitarian uses of language, has said that he studies the words in his Russian dictionary "as if they were precious stones, each so precious that I would not exchange one for another." Another Russian exile, Vladimir Nabokov, has the same curator's love of words...
...known and obscure. Some samples: a $50 million order to Allis-Chalmers Corp. for an iron-ore pelletizing plant, a $47 million contract with Gould Inc. for a plant to produce heavy-duty engine bearings, a $21 million order for Caterpillar bulldozers and a $7 million contract with General Instrument Corp. for technical assistance and equipment for manufacturing hand-held calculators. On the consumer front, the Soviets have placed a $23 million order with Intertex International for machinery to make synthetic furs and signed a contract (dollar amount unspecified) with R.J. Reynolds Industries for technical advice on improving the quality...
...Wagnerian epics of the last century. His Sequenza V for trombone is really a theater piece which grows out of a musical core. Body movements are a carefully indicated in the score as the notes. There are instructions about standing and sitting, and the position of the instrument as well as the usual grunts and vowel sounds. To add to the effect, the player is expected to wear a clown costume. It is this sense of theater, this reliance on dramatic rather than musical necessity, that is the driving force behind this and other Berio works...
Part of Chen's lack of concern with technique stems from his never having studied an instrument. He has picked up enough piano to get around the keys, but he has never confronted problems of producing sounds on particular instruments. So when he wants a certain musical effect, he he won't take technical limitations as an excuse. "If you have a battle to fight and you need your reinforcements at such and such a date and such place, you can't say 'Well, because we don't have the trucks necessary we can't be there.' You plan...