Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There are those who have found any art of such absolute reduction too self-restricting, something abstracted beyond either beauty or meaning. Yet unlike painting or poetry or music, dance can never really be "abstract," because the shape of both instrument and perfected form is the familiarity of the human body. The essence of Cunningham's art is in the end not reduction, but the affirmation of the body in the simplicity of its own life. Perhaps most of all, his is an art of celebration
Curtin said the human voice is an instrument which, with proper training, "grows up with the performer," and reaches its peak development when the singer is 45 to 55 years...
Before he spoke, Chinmoy played three pieces on an esraj, an Indian string instrument similar to the sitar...
...first instrument of its kind. Previous coronographs have gauged only light from the visible spectrum...
Kohl said yesterday although the coronagraph is now a "complete instrument." it still needs "minor modifications and performance testing." The group will devote the next eight months to perfecting...