Word: kettledrumming
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Conductor Fiedler has been troubled by open air acoustics. On the first night, as his music proceeded from the huge, conch-like acoustic shell, queer things happened. Tubas became thunderous, reverberant. Strings quavered into curious silences. Kettledrum tones were like feeble rasps on a gourd. Although untrained listeners were unaware, sensitive Conductor Fiedler was beside himself...
Chicago Civic Opera Company announced a new contract with its musicians, union men all. Last year the average salary, from harp to kettledrum, was $132 per week. The new average: $150 per week; next year, $162 per week...
Well might these admiring unorthodox critics be greeted with a smile from Ludwig van Beethoven, whose deaf ears rang with the Ninth Symphony for 25 years before he entrusted it to the world, who recreated the kettledrum rhythm of the Agnus Die so often that he wore holes in thick paper, who "stood on ground long ago trod by Aristotle who held that the highest art should appeal to the intellect through its perfection in form...
Then there are the Moon Poems ?all of them?and some of the Verses of an Especially Inscriptional Character, where Mr. Lindsay's very much unappreciated lyric gift is seen at its best. And My Fathers Came from Kentucky?and others?many others?kettledrum, piccolo, flute and birchbark moose-call?in fact, almost every instrument. Really, the only thing to do with a book like this is to read...
...second trial of candidates for the Pierian Sodality will take place Monday, January 12, at 7 o'clock, Roberts Hall, Brattle street. Instruments especially needed are: First violins, violas, second flute and piccolo, oboe, clarinet, trombone, double bass, bassoon and kettledrum...