Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...orchestra generally tours for two weeks at a time, then returns to Stuttgart in its two buses and 6 by 6 truck "to take the dents out of our instruments." The players carry their own music racks and chairs wherever they go, pay for instrument repairs and similar incidentals out of their own pockets. "The hardest job is to convince people that we're a symphony orchestra and not a band," explains the orchestra's advance man, Sergeant Regis Cronauer. "At one post they wanted us to play in an abandoned hangar that had become a bird sanctuary...
Abolish the Paupers. Elder Statesman Alcide de Gasperi talked the new line: "We must transform our party into an instrument fit for the times.'' Of Italy's 11.5 million families, he said, 1,375,000 could be called "paupers," 1,345,000 more are underprivileged, and only 1,274,000 have a "high standard of living." De Gasperi summed up: "Our notion of social justice is to raise the poorer classes to a higher standard of living, to narrow the difference between all classes, and, above all, to abolish the pauper class." It was the voting, however...
...Microscope. 5. Weather-predicting instrument...
...Romp. The tuba yawned selfconsciously through a mass of quavers like a gigantic empty stomach, rumbling from note to note, fluffing some quick passages, squawking agonizingly slowly through deep bass notes. Then came the cadenza, which was really too intricate for a tuba. The instrument cleared its throat and got going. But soon the movement ended in a romp, with orchestra and tuba neck and neck. The second movement came off beautifully. In a slower, sustained tempo. Catelinet poured out a rich sound, often booming up from the bass into a fruity contralto. Warmed up now, he launched into...
...Politico Francis Hopkinson (1737-1791). Hopkinson, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, had sent his work to George Washington, received a polite acknowledgement from the President: ". . . what alas! can I do to support it? I can neither sing one of the songs nor raise a note on any instrument to convince the unbelieving." The Slider. Dichter's stock of old sheet music (copies available at $1 and up) follows the U.S. right through the Civil War to the eve of World War I, pausing frequently along Broadway and Tin Pan Alley. Among his titles: The Old Union Wagon...