Word: instruments
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Died. E. (for Edward) Power Biggs, 70, organ virtuoso who led a revival of interest in his instrument and delighted millions on radio, records and in concerts for 40 years; after an operation for bleeding ulcers; in Boston. Born in England and first trained as an electrical engineer, Biggs "instinctively" moved to the U.S. in 1929. He disapproved of florid romanticism and played modern U.S. composers as well as Bach, Handel and Mozart in his reserved baroque style. An expert on the classic organs built centuries ago, he traveled throughout Europe to find instruments on which to play the music...
...TAKES WORK--in italics--to produce such pictures. Germano left a Wall St. career to work only on photographing his native Berkeley, finally inventing a camera to take the pictures he envisioned. The instrument's ability to capture incredibly fine detail and texture has made it a necessary tool of the avant-garde cameraman, and its mastery a challenge he must meet. (All the pictures in this exhibit, except Rubinfien's, were taken with it.) Leaving, as Lifson says, "no place to hide," the superclarity of the camera's vision lends these pictures an uncanny surrealism. The trees in Wing...
...when he spoke before the Guild of Organists recently in New York City. There had been a major controversy over whether to install a real or "fake" (electric) organ in Carnegie Hall. Biggs had been a militant opponent of those who sought to "cheapen" the hall with the modern instrument. He told a tale to illustrate the points of his argument...
...choirmaster and organist at Christ Church in Cambridge and Harvard Church in Brookline, second only to his reputation earned through first-rate recordings and broadcasts coast-to-coast and abroad. Biggs also commissioned new music, discovered old music, continually affirmed the importance of playing that old music on authentic instruments, and pioneered the use of the organ as an ensemble instrument...
...side. The thin sail (ordinary plastic kitchen wrap is five times thicker) would be coated with an aluminum reflecting layer on the side that will face the sun, and painted a heat-absorbing black on the other side. The total weight of the sail and the instrument-packed ship mounted in a hole at its center will be only 5,000 kilograms (11,000 lbs.)-a payload that could easily be launched into earth orbit by a rocket...