Word: instrumentation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...guitar is God's own instrument, John Major will be giving a recital of works for solo guitar, including premieres of "Improbable Rose" by Tison Street and "Iverson Songs" by Tim Mukherjee in Sanders Theatre. The surroundings will be grand but the Almighty might not be able to attend. However, the performance, starting at 8:30 should be worthwhile anyway...
Every night Lomblot stations two of his men on the river to guard a stretch 39 miles long. Their principal piece of equipment is a "people sniffer," an electronic sensing device developed to catch the prowling Viet Cong. Despite its name, the instrument actually detects the minute seismic vibrations caused by a person walking. The agents place the gadget-the size of a briefcase-near the banks of the Rio Grande and don earphones. When they pick up a vibration, they move in to seize their prey...
...currently serving a one-year jail term for resisting arrest. His case will scarcely end the centuries-old debate over whether sense can-or should-be beaten into schoolchildren. Despite psychiatric evidence that the practice is harmful and ineffective, advocates of the paddle see it as a simple instrument of law and order, and some of them swear by Proverbs 23: 14 -"Thou shall beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell." Where local laws and customs do not prohibit paddling, misbehaving students will continue...
Just as Kushnick experiments with sounds and perceptions, Jeannie Lieberman sees herself as "a psychic emotional jiggler" who asks herself "deep root questions," and expects the listener to do the same. She uses her voice as an instrument, experimenting to discover the right texture, color and feel. The rising glissando in the second verse of "Velvet Sportcoat" abruptly alters the mood set by the song's first verse, and underscores the words: Haze like juice spilled slowly formless/Scent of citrus in my ears." In one of Johnson's compositions, "Instrumental," Lieberman makes bird like sounds that are almost primal...
...Music Society is sponsoring an informal jazz coffeehouse. The Amphion. Berklee piano student Peter Drescher is the featured act. Amphion's got its own coterie of student performers including Joe Reed, Hugh Burrow and Peter Fraenkel, who welcome you to sit in with them if you play a rhythm instrument. The Freebop Quintet is also on the bill. This week the session will meet in the Adams House JCR at 8. Thereafter Amphion will be held in the Quincy...