Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Taste of Power traces a Communist tough's devious path to a cell at the top, first as a hard-drinking guerrilla fighter, then as a brutal apparatchik. Mňačko weaves a picture of a pathetic, subhuman instrument of an inhuman system that ultimately traps and isolates him. Unlike some Communist contemporaries who view their success from prison,* Mňačko still haunts the Olympia Grill, his favorite bar in Prague, where he is treated like a local hero. "All of the incidents in the book are true," he said last week. "We thought...
...Emil Nolde, though, a subject was to a painter "as the instrument he handles is to the musician." He said that "colors are my notes, which I use to form harmonizing or contrasting sounds and chords." He usually began a watercolor by working paint onto a wet piece of paper with a bit of cotton until the colors blended into one another. After the colors dried, he would study the composition to see what unexpected subjects it suggested to him, then outline them, a practice he referred to as "passive painting." Nolde said that "my best pictures always came...
...instrument (which Mr. Avshalomov used in Milhaud's "Percussion Concerto") to which the reviewer referred as "a dilapidated Fourth-of-July noisemaker" is actually a respected piece of percussion paraphernalia known as a ratchet. Ratchets have delighted so many for so long that it is scarcely necessary to recall their grand history...
...real concern is the particular ratchet toward which the slander has been directed. This is no ordinary ratchet, but rather the new, carefully selected, exquisitely sensitive, four-pronged, concert ratchet, lent to Mr. Avshalomov by the Harvard University Band. This honorable and delicate instrument may be cranked at angular velocities up to eight pi radians per second. The timbre may be changed by altering the sense of rotation. The possible effects of the ratchet range from single thwacks to pulsating rolls and evenly sustained buzzing. Such awesome versatility is hardly common to "a dilapidated Fourth-of-July noisemaker...
Needless to say, Mr. Avshalomov's ratcheting did credit to this little-understood and seldom appreciated instrument. Laurence L. Brunton '69 Principal Percussionist Harvard University Band