Word: ocarina
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...growing literature for percussion ensembles. Included were Malloy Miller's Prelude for Percussion, Lou Harrison's Canticle No. j, Arthur Cohn's Quotations in Percussion, Michael Colgrass' Three Brothers. The most interesting was the Harrison piece, which laid down a hauntingly languorous theme on the ocarina, then echoed itself in a series of guitar, xylophone and muted cowbell flights as vaporous and softly glowing as a Japanese watercolor. Cohn's Quotations, on the other hand, utilized 103 instruments (including the exposed strings of a grand piano, which one player walloped with a lamb...
...called because, after 15 bars of charming, tinkling music, the whole orchestra suddenly crashes into a shattering fortissimo chord. But as played in a British Columbia album, the symphony contains several surprises not in Haydn's score, including snatches from old-style Chicago jazz records, an ocarina solo and a septet of bottles-five hot-water and two beer...
...Truman. The walls were painted robin's-egg blue, there was a television set and a spinet. Said Pride: "Goodness gracious, what's going on in this boudoir?" Actually, the spinet was not a bad idea: Pride likes to make music, plays the piccolo, flute, harmonica and ocarina...
...heartburn. Readers-as distinct from listeners-now have an opportunity to judge the accuracy of Critic Lardner's aim. In a new book out this week, 103 Lyrics of Cole Porter (selected by Fred Lounsberry-Random House; $4.50) were clamped between hard covers without so much as an ocarina accompaniment. It is a rare tribute to a lyricist, but it is also a bit of a dirty trick...
...show itself tags and eventually begins to toil after Merman, it never trips her up. Irving Berlin's score is pleasing and varied, offering now the pretty Old World tinkle of The Ocarina, now a pre-election selection called They Like...