Word: organ
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...group will be on the lookout for melodious menageries that may be headed for the electric saw. Is there still room in the American imagination for the quaint, circling beauty of a carousel aglitter with colored glass and alive with organ music? "The carousel is an art form," says Fried, "the greatest mobile. I consider them to be like great American landmarks...
Pablo's father was the church organist in the town of Vendrell some 40 miles from Barcelona, and the young Pablo grew up with music. He was playing the piano at four, the violin at seven, the organ at nine. At eleven he heard a cello for the first time when a traveling trio visited Vendrell. "I felt as if I could not breathe. There was something so tender, beautiful and human about the sound. A radiance filled...
...Madison Bus Company, most notably) won him enough grudging respect to get him elected council president in 1971. In his 1973 mayoral runoff campaign, he won support not only from student radicals--including The Daily Cardinal, the university's student newspaper, which Soglin's opponents claimed was his "party organ" and which embarrassed him a couple of times during the campaign by making fun of his liberal supporters--but also from organized labor and some liberal Democrats. Some of Soglin's original supporters said he had sold out when he dumped his old campaign staff. "If I had wanted...
...WAILERS--One of Jamaica's hottest reggae groups, the Wailers have remained faithful to the early, sparsely arranged, stoned-out reggae sound. With just their bass, lead guitar, electric organ, and a steady, understated drum beat, they create an eerily hypnotic musical style. The force behind the group's unrelenting swaying rhythms builds up like the lava emerging from a volcano. Bob Marley's lyrics combine Rastafarlan spirituality with an uncompromising insistence on political freedom; the Wailers create an atmosphere of a revolutionary cadre holding a ganja party in a Kingston ghetto. Unfortunately, Paul's Mall, which offers no dance...
...approach to performance, the soprano descant to the processional hymn, Ye Watchers and Ye Holy Ones, came as a surprise to more than a few listeners. There was a burst of sound as the last verse of the hymn exploded with brass and timpani joining the congregation and organ and the sopranos soaring off in their solo. This elaborate orchestration with descant is more familiar to St. Paul's Church than Memorial Church; it should be done more often here...