Word: marimba
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which was climaxed by the 35th annual banquet of the National Association of Music Merchants. To soothe string and wind instrument makers who have been nettled in past years by the fact that piano players have dominated the banquet entertainment, NAMM this year packed the bill with cornetists, harpists, marimba and accordion players...
...same time final details for Class Day were made known. Besides the Orchestras of Ruby Newman, which will play for dancing at Eliot and Lowell Houses in the evening, two Philippine Marimba bands will play supper music in the courtyards of Leverett and Winthrop Houses. In case of rain they will play in the Common Rooms of the Houses instead of the courtyards, where it is planned to set up tables, which may be reserved in advance. Ruby Newman's Orchestras will play indoors for the dancing, but their music will be relayed to the courtyards. The tables will...
...music. A swart Mexican accompanied him, explained to Aztecs and Tarascans that it was their own native music the stranger wanted to hear, not the imported hodge-podge played in Mexican cities. The stranger was interested in the rude, primitive sounds made by the chirimia (clay pipe), the marimba made of gourds, the teponaztle, which is the Mexican Indians' drum, the noisy basis for all their music. Indians took to calling the white man Chokopul which means "one of wandering wits...
...City Sisters carry on an efficient charity service in Los Angeles. The Temple's musical department includes: three bands, three choirs, two orchestras, three organists, three pianists, six quartets, several glee clubs, sundry soloists. When the musical contingent has needed supplementing she has hired the Andrews Bell Ringers, a marimba band, jubilee singers, an 80-piece xylophone band...
...cowboys or sabaneros. They rode in from long distances on fine horses, their saddles decorated in the most colorful of leathers, but these otherwise well-dressed horsemen rode in their stirrups bare-footed. The traditional square dances, queens, representing the two orders of society, football games, and sweetly melodious marimba concerts in the moonlight were all features of the ceremonies. Particularly impressive, though, were the bull-riding contests, held in a special plaza and attended by a large audience, which in breathless excitement, watched the infuriated bulls buck their riders, who stuck tenaciously to the smooth saddles and used spurs...