Word: instruments
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...first scene of “The Visitor,” Walter Vale struggles in his weekly piano lesson to bend his fingers into the correct position. As his teacher departs, she tells the aging economics professor, “Learning an instrument at your age is difficult, especially if you don’t possess a natural gift for it.” In case the viewer hasn’t grasped the depths of Vale’s despondency by the end of these first few shots, they will soon: in the opening scenes, he gazes forlornly...
...mellow indie-folk sound. And presumably, the fact that neither claims to be the other’s ex-spouse makes things less complicated. The Dodos are singer and songwriter Meric Long and drummer Logan Kroeber. Unlike Meg White, Kroeber actually seems capable of keeping time and playing his instrument. He forms a significant and complicated part of the group’s sound, which favors the use of percussive elements as more than just backing. “Visiter” contains soothing and sweet indie-pop folk, sometimes with a bluesy twist. Though the Dodos don?...
...Education, introduced his interviewee as “the pre-eminent cellist of his generation.” Over the course of the interview—recorded for the TV show “Extraordinary Minds at Work”—Ma displayed his talent for his instrument and his deep understanding of the music written for it. “Music has a wonderful way of expressing the inner life of somebody or a people,” he said. He reserved particular praise for Bach, whose “Prelude to the First Suite?...
...keep enough dollars in circulation that made the Great Depression such a great disaster. No Federal Reserve chairman will ever let that happen again, so we probably shouldn't worry too much about bread lines and Hoovervilles in the near future. But the money supply is a blunt instrument, one that comes nowhere near addressing all of today's problems. "The issue is not one of liquidity but one of solvency," says Richard McGuire, a strategist at RBC Capital Markets in London. "It's not the cost of money but the unwillingness of banks to lend to one another owing...
...Bear Stearns careened toward its eventual fire sale to JPMorgan Chase last weekend, the cost of protecting its debt, through an instrument called a credit default swap, began to rise rapidly as investors feared that Bear would not be good for the money it promised on its bonds. Not familiar with credit default swaps? Well, we didn't know much about collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) either - until they began to undermine the economy. Credit default swaps, once an obscure financial instrument for banks and bondholders, could soon become the eye of the credit hurricane...