Word: instrumentation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Swim By Instrument. In the narrow Bering Straits between Alaska and Soviet Siberia, Nautilus kept well within U.S. waters, popped up its radar antenna only once for about 30 seconds to take a radar fix. Did the Russians detect them? Anderson thought not. Detouring along Alaska's northern coast to avoid clogged-up ice, Nautilus surfaced for the first time since Pearl Harbor to get a sure fix on a DEW-line radar station, then headed down again into the fantastic beneath-the-sea new world of mountains and deeps that is the nuclear submarine's true element...
...organ itself is a three-manual Holtkamp instrument with 2919 pipes. It speaks with fine clarity, but some of the ranks--especially the reeds--are insufferably harsh. Most of the pipes are exposed, and are grouped in front of, behind, to the right of, and above the player. If one sits in a certain part of the auditorium, one can hear the sounds coming from the different directional sources. At some times, Biggs intentionally chose registrations that made this added dimension extremely effective...
...despair which employs an infanticide, a lesbian, and a coward as its protagonists; a despair which isn't any more tragic than it is didactic, and yet is great art. The dilemma of the common death sentence, hackneyed at the hands of philosophy professors, is moving as the instrument of good acting and directing...
...instrument makers even have a plaything for the new stereo bugs: an accordion that can be plugged in so that the treble channels through one speaker while the bass thunders through another...
Both Des Todes Tod and its successor on the program, Die Serenaden--a little cantata on Romantic texts for soprano, oboe, viola and violoncello--approached Hindemith's orchestral ideal of thick texture, rich tone and extensive contrapuntal treatment, with each instrument going its separate way. In "Der Wurm am Meer" in the second group of pieces in Die Serenaden, all four elements had different melodies that combined to form a coherent and colorful whole. Such terms might be used to describe the whole program...