Word: instrumentalization
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...that he got the biggest applause of the night on David Letterman last Thursday when he repeated the "trust" mantra. Indeed, when Gore in the debate brought up the Dingell-Norwood bill, a bipartisan effort to solve the HMO problem, he might as well have pulled a shiny chrome instrument out of his back pocket and performed an invasive procedure on one of the Undecideds. In the face of details, Bush seeks refuge in his own good intentions, expressed in a warm bedside manner. "You can quote all the numbers you want. I'm telling you, we care about...
...John Cage, who incorporated actual noise into his work. For the soundtrack of Fly, Ono simply makes a succession of nerve-jangling vocal sounds--ululations and sudden shrieks, weird cooing and feline melismas--that are unworldly but unmistakably human. To put it mildly, her voice is not the ideal instrument for mainstream pop, but it can have the cracked charm of Neil Young's or Kurt Cobain's. If she had not been too famous by the late '70s to make a name for herself, she might have found a niche in punk. Just hours before Lennon's death...
...college charts, and it brought about a quick smile. For our band the Humming, Matthew was both engineering and producing: simply put, an engineer captures sounds onto a recorded medium, whereas a producer is responsible for getting the best performance out of the band. The latter job includes instrument choice, style and tempo suggestion, specific note review, song selection and an overarching vision for the project. This relinquishing of control was both inviting and disturbing for us. I remember feeling distinctly, after going through pre-production rehearsal with Matthew, that I had no idea how The Humming's debut would...
...trio opened with Brahms' Piano Trio No. 2 in C Major, Opus 87. Throughout the first movement, the strings and the piano traded the melody so smoothly that the exchanges seemed barely perceptible, as though the sequences had been performed on a single instrument. From lyrical legatos to graceful pizzicatos, the three seemed to draw the best out of one another's sound. At one especially triumphant arrival, the passionate Meneses had his eyebrows furrowed painfully as Pressler perhaps unconsciously began to sing at the piano. In the third movement, Pressler showed again the flair of a seasoned performer...
...years combined. Mario Libertini, who teaches industrial law at the University of Rome, says Amato brought tremendous prestige to the Authority, but he notes that the body took on greater force after it started to levy heavy fines. "In the early years, there was very little use of this instrument," he says. "In the beginning, there was normally just an injunction, as if everything were a venial...