Word: instrumentalized
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Musical director Molly J. Hester ’08, along with Lindsay K. Turner ’07, has organized a small musical ensemble to bookend “Playboy” and to punctuate its action. The instrumentation is traditionally Irish, and certainly unique to the production. The accordion, fiddle, Uilleann (dubbed “indoor bagpipes” by Hester) and bodhran (an Irish percussion instrument) will accompany a vocal musician who, according to Spillane-Hinks, spans the gap between music and theater, and who will introduce the performance in a manner reminiscent of a Shakespearian prologue...
...long pause]…I felt like I didn’t really know how to play an instrument. I felt like, although I haven’t been playing a serious musical instrument for all my life, I have been working on English...
...chief international instrument defining the rights of refugees, the Convention was created by 26 nations, including Australia, to deal with a chaotic tide of refugees after World War II. Now, says Michelle Foster, director of Melbourne University's Research Programme in International Refugee Law, it risks undermining some of the Convention's key principles. Article 31, for example, specifies that refugees should not be penalized for illegally entering a country when fleeing directly from a place of persecution. In 2001, when most boat people reaching Australia were coming from the Middle East and South Asia via other countries, Ruddock emphasized...
...said. Parker said that these projects are “right[s] of passage to being a professional engineer. As a professional engineer it’s what you do—you solve problems.” All three winners won a brand new multimeter, an electronic measuring instrument. According to Adams, “Winning the multimeter is awesome, you never know when you might all of a sudden desperately need one around the house...
...double bass. The look on his face suggests that the two-piece is a bit more confining than his more typical strategically-placed tube sock, but the master of the funky electric bass looks like he’s having the time of his life playing the big old instrument. The video for “Dani California” basically seems like a chance for the Chili Peppers to clown around expensively on camera, and the results are surprisingly entertaining. It’s just better if you watch it on mute. —Tom C. Denison