Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eight-foot bass drum, hallmark of the Harvard Band, may have to remain in Cambridge for repairs. Undergraduate band manager Alan S. Novick '55, announced yesterday that the instrument, largest bass drum in use in the world, needs new supports and a thorough check...
...masters of the classical guitar as Fernando Sor and Francisco Tarrega and a three-movement Concertino for Guitar and Orchestra by the contemporary Brazilian composer, Guido Santorsola, accompanied by the Vienna Symphony under Paul Sacher. The big work is ideal for records, where the quiet colors of the solo instrument can be clearly heard and its gently modern effects fall pleasantly...
...White House and is still a strong contender. Always a big vote getter in his own congressional district, he ran 10,000 votes ahead of Dwight Eisenhower in 1952. His basic political philosophy: the U.S. should .follow a great middle way, and the Republican Party is the instrument to find that...
Last year he composed and played some first-rate background music for the British film Genevieve-although for U.S. consumption his name was left off the credits. The Manchester Guardian's Neville Cardus compared him to Paganini: "It would be hard to prove that anybody playing any instrument in the world of music today plays with more than Mr. Adler's art and virtuosity...
Koussevitzky Plays the Double Bass (Victor). Out of the wayward past (1929) comes the echo of Conductor Koussevitzky's first love, the bull fiddle. In these six pieces (three of them his own compositions), the instrument sounds like a husky cello, dark and sentimental, and it moves like a fat man on a dance floor, bulky but often surprisingly graceful...