Word: instruments
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
THOUGH KNOWN AS THE SUPREME VIOLIN virtuoso whose personal eccentricities and wizardly playing combined to make him music's first superstar, Niccolo Paganini was also a superb guitarist. The instrument figured in all his published work during his lifetime except his magnum opus, the ferociously demanding 24 Caprices for solo violin. It seems just, then, that the guitar virtuoso ELIOT FISK has recorded his own transcriptions of the pieces (MusicMasters Classics). What amazes throughout is Fisk's ingenuity in finding the equivalents of, say, legato and ricocheted bowing on his plucked instrument, and his dexterity in executing them with such...
Less controversial was the proposal that terrestrial defenders should know the exact nature of their target before acting. Responding early to a worrisome asteroid, they would send a "precursor mission," an instrumented spacecraft, to fly by or orbit the object and determine its size, shape and composition. One such "practice" mission, code-named Clementine, has already been budgeted by the Defense Department in coordination with NASA. It will fly an instrument package past the approaching asteroid Geographos in 1994 to test the kind of sensors and navigational devices that someday may be needed to help cope with a real threat...
...clangor of the world. White noise becomes the aural equivalent of the clash of images, the nonstop blast of fragments that increasingly agitates our minds. As Ben Okri, the young Nigerian novelist, puts it, "When chaos is the god of an era, clamorous music is the deity's chief instrument...
...followed the rise of Arkansas' saxophone-playing Governor. Like Clinton, Sancton has a deep love of music, having studied the clarinet in his native New Orleans with the great George Lewis. "I find it amusing that he is a fellow Southern Rhodes scholar who plays a reed instrument," he says. Sancton still finds time to cut records and jam with the likes of Woody Allen and Doc Cheatham. This week Tom once again departs for the City of Light in order to take over as Paris bureau chief. "Having worked for TIME on both sides of the Atlantic, I find...
...under way. Yet no American sculptor in her generation has more to tell us, through her work, about being a woman. To an astonishing degree, she personalized Minimalism, the artistic context to which she belonged, taking it out of the constraints of theory and system and making it an instrument of feeling -- of telling an inner life...