Word: organics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...about it is superlative, including its attraction for tourists, especially at Easter and Christmas. It is the biggest indoor theater in the world, with 6,000 seats, a mammoth 70 ft. by 35 ft. movie screen, and a stage almost big enough for a football game. When the giant organ bellows The Stars and Stripes Forever, dogs, it is claimed, begin howling in Paramus, N.J. For 40 years through wars, depressions and even a strike of its 46 Rockettes, the Music Hall has never closed its doors. Last week, however, because of a dispute with its musicians, the theater...
Immunology, the study of the complex mechanisms by which the body fends off disease and resists transplants, is probably the most promising branch of medical research today. Many experts feel that in this rapidly advancing field, doctors will discover the secrets of cancer control and more successful organ transplantation...
...orchestral playing was in every way equal to the singing. In addition to the perfect horn obbligato, the other soloists were very good. The oboes, flutes, and violins all accompanied with great care. The rarely-played Aeolian-Skinner organ of Symphony Hall was used with registrations quite appropriate to its role as a continuo instrument. It was especially effective in the Cum sancto spiritu and the exultant Et expecto resurrectionem...
...familiar with the quirks of the Frobenius to produce a more enjoyable sound. (Johnson playing on the Busch-Reisinger's Flentrop is outstanding). But the problems of the Frobenius are noticeable: not enough foundation, raucous reeds, and questionable tone-regulation. The site for the instrument was promising, but the organ itself disappointing. It will be here for a long time--the previous instrument, a Hook and Hastings, lasted over 90 years...
...EVENT, the fact remains that the Frobenius is a well-crafted instrument, quite capable of fulfilling the church's sacred and secular functions. As a baroque organ (only the swell shutters and celeste belie this), its balance is too far off in favor of the noisy mixture stops, clearly a serious fault in a room with so little resonance...