Word: instruments
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Closed Routes. The instrument used was the mujahid, or local warrior. Subsequent Indian interrogations of captured mujahids indicate that they are mostly inhabitants of Azad (Free) Kashmir, the Pakistan-occupied one-third of the state. As army veterans, they were given a brisk course of retraining, taught methods of sabotage. Last month they began crossing the porous cease-fire line with instructions to start an insurrection...
ISAAC STERN (Columbia). The violin concertos of Samuel Barber and Paul Hindemith test Stern's talents in contrasting ways. For Barber, the violin must gently caress the lush phrases and clearly sing the profusion of simple melodies. With Hindemith, the instrument becomes one of dark conflict. Stern is superbly in control of both, as is Leonard Bernstein conducting the New York Philharmonic...
ADOLF SCHERBAUM (Deutsche Grammophon) is the world's foremost master of the baroque trumpet, an instrument without valves (which were not added until the 19th century). On this record he presents music by Vivaldi, Torelli, Telemann, Graupner and Fasch. Clearly conversant with the horn's volatile upper register, Scherbaum sends silver runs and trills echoing through imagined medieval castles or floating above mirrored lakes at dawn...
...been at the heart of men's lives and business, the fuel of their ambitions, the symbol of wealth and power in almost every society. It has not only made possible but helped to create the vast and complicated structure of modern civilization. Adam Smith called it "the great instrument of commerce," but few who have tried to define it over the years did better than the poet Bion 2,100 years ago: "Money is the sinews of affairs...
LARRY YOUNG: INTO SOMETHIN' (Blue Note). A jazz organist who can produce a big sound without drowning the listener is a rare man, but Larry Young is deft enough to do it. He can also comment sensitively and even wryly on the instrument most alien to modern jazz...