Word: kettledrum
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...record companies looked as if they had been hit over the head with a kettledrum. Together with men from radio, television, and phonograph manufacturers, they formed a united industry committee to fight Petrillo. But Petrillo wasn't budging an inch: "We are never going to make records again-ever. That's one New Year's resolution we've made and one we are going to keep...
...reaction, academic or otherwise, was displayed by the two recognizable minions of law and order. Chef Alvin Randall puffed his pipe in contentment throughout, and Sergent Jim Toomey only moved into action when an abandoned Princeton car was turned into a large kettledrum by some over enthusiastic team supporters.Two of the Crimson's youngest supporters inspect a Yard Cop as he listens to a motley throng of pre-game noise-makers...
...same." The no-piece orchestra was not quite the same at first; Toscanini drilled them firmly, but with none of his usual wrathful outbursts. On opening night they played as they had not for years. Toscanini had chosen an all-Italian program (Rossini, Verdi, Puccini) of the kind of kettledrum-banging bravado that he likes. When he played Verdi's Te Deum, the audience got to its feet and shouted enthusiastically...
...below the surface. This zone conserves, focuses and carries sound waves over great distances. Sped by the sound-carrying properties of deep water (a function of temperature and density), the explosion of Sofar's underwater bomb comes to the receiving stations as a noise something like a rolling kettledrum crescendo, ending in a sharp report which can be timed to a tenth of a second...
Rossini: Overtures (NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini conducting; Victor, 8 sides). Italy's great kettledrum-banging composer is heard with appropriate thunder on unbreakable plastic records, which catch the crescendos without the mushiness of ordinary records. Best is Toscanini's job on La Gazza Ladra (The Thieving Magpie). Also in Victor's second plastic album are the overtures to The Barber of Seville, La Cenerentola (Cinderella) and Il Signor Bruschino. Performance : excellent...