Word: instrumentalization
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...Rock Club. Being that the Paradise is so small, it is difficult to get good acoustics and ambience there. Yorn, backed by three other musicians, was soundwise one of the best bands I’ve seen at the Paradise. You could hear all the different lines from each instrument clearly without distortion or overmodulation. Yorn himself, unknown to the crowd who were waiting for the Backstreet Boys of rock, Semisonic, rocked the stage with a short set highlighted by an alternative rendition of Springsteen’s “Dancing in the Dark.” He also...
...really. My first instrument was piano. All the instruments are equal. Everyone’s improvising. everyone’s well versed, regardless of what instrument you perform on. Drummers like Kenny Clarke and Art Blakey played piano also. If you excel on a certain instrument, that’s where you position yourself. Ellington, who’s a composer, he performed on drums as well. Dizzy played all the instruments...
...Luchini believes that the audience plays an essential role in creating the special music of the theater. "I work with my public to find the right note," he says. "I'm like someone who is tuning an instrument. If they help me, we arrive at the truth. If they don't, I get angry." Nor does his interplay with the public end with the final line of text. On a good night, a sweat-drenched Luchini will return after the curtain calls and launch into a so-called prolongation - an improvised monologue in which he extols Céline...
...never apologize" is a dullard's policy. The apology - one of the more creative forms of human insincerity - has a thousand inflections and subtle uses. It may, for example, be employed as a splendid instrument of reversal. Remember when Bill Clinton went through his apologizing phase? After a time, we wanted to plead with him to make up with Monica and resume the behavior for which he was begging forgiveness - anything to shut...
Machine-gun fire raked down the passenger aisle and into the cockpit, wrecking part of the instrument panel. Bullets tore into the back of the plane's engineer as he tried to help the two pilots get the shuddering plane under control; he died on the spot. Another blast killed a stewardess. Barely two minutes after the attack began, Blown wrestled the burning DC-4 onto the ocean surface. Miraculously, a dinghy appeared among the debris. Nine survivors struggled aboard. As rescue planes alerted by Blown's Mayday message began gathering, the Chinese government warned colonial Hong Kong's British...