Word: musically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this broadcast smelled a Nazi. Sure enough, later that evening Warsaw's Radio Station 2 came on, warned Poles against broadcasts purporting to come from Station 1, which had been disabled; assured its listeners that Warsaw still stood; sought volunteers for trenching and barricading; switched to Polish music...
Died. Lawrence Gilman, 61, famed music pundit of the New York Herald Tribune, author, commentator, program annotator for the Philharmonic Society of New York; of a heart attack, in Sugar Hill...
Between 15 and 19, Arthur Rimbaud wrote poetry whose slashing irony and pure music still influence poets. At 19 he wrote Une Saison en Enfer (A Season in Hell), an obscure, agonized hodgepodge in which Rimbaud addicts* trace the wrestlings of his André Gide-like puritanism with his André Gide-like passions. But from then until he died, at 37, in a Marseille hospital, Arthur Rimbaud never wrote again. This amazing break with his genius, his lone-wolf prowlings through the lower depths of Europe, his gunrunning in Africa and Asia form a vague, provoking literary legend...
...whanging out this Brobdingnagian music was a prim, bald-headed carillonneur named Kamiel Lefre, No. 1 bellwhanger of the U. S. carillonneur of the Riverside Church and president of the North American Guild of Carillonneurs. Hard at work inside a little wooden booth at one end of the platform, through a glass window he could be seen pulling, slapping and stamping at the levers and pedals of the most complicated piece of bell-ringing machinery in the U. S. When he had boomed his last bong, Carillonneur Lefre emerged from his booth in a dignified sweat, took off his gloves...
...like foot pedals. By punching with his clenched fists and scrabbling with his feet, a good carillonneur can play anything from roundelays to opera. Because a carillon concert takes a deal of punching and scrabbling, carillonneurs have to be husky. Because all carillons are different, and because very little music is written for the carillon, carillonneurs have to be their own composers and arrangers. Even the best bells jangle and hum with unwanted overtones. If the wrong overtones clash, the carillonneur's music sounds like an erupting boiler factory...