Word: organism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...does not use his regal Steinway grand for composition, but sits over his score paper at a desk in his workroom. The room, kept locked against the incursions of four children, ages 20 to 30, who still come by and "steal my records," also accommodates a broken 17th century organ, a functioning studio-size recording console, piles of music books and tapes, and a secret desk drawer filled with soap filched from hotel rooms around the world. At the moment, Morricone is in the throes of scoring Brian DePalma's upcoming The Untouchables. He works nine-hour stretches almost daily...
...years later Gary Ahearn sat down at the organ in a Los Angeles special-education classroom. Facing the keyboard for the first time, he played an imperfect but recognizable version of Liszt's Liebestraume. A teacher brought him to Walker, and today he plays eight instruments. Like Ahearn, the students at Hope University have learned emotional and physical control through music and art instruction. Indeed, Hope's program has been so successful that many students now hold part-time jobs...
...easy loping walk through the meadows, Moses sings a warrior song. There is a falsetto line of rapid narrative in these songs that is interrupted with a chorus of bass organ tones fetched from deep in the chest -- low, menacing warrior iterations, animal noises proclaiming war beneath the almost soprano narration. Moses is performing both the falsetto and the deep, sinister chorus. The deep tones of the chorus are like the lowest register of a fierce harmonica. The song is about the Masai clans, about old drought and famine. An old laibon says, don't worry, because the warriors will...
There is a warrior lope that goes along with the song, although Moses does not give it the full treatment now. Chin and chest jut forward at the assertion of organ tone: Hunnnnnnh! Hunnnnnnnnh! The Masai know how to look dangerous, and sound dangerous. And the history of East African warfare confirms that they are dangerous. But the visitor wonders why the hands of the men are so oddly soft...
...both in the lack of concerted action by students and the severe circumscription of their rights by administrators. The policy-making bodies remain the domain of a select few. Until both groups recognize the inherent rights of the student community, the Undergraduate Council will remain the anemic, ineffectual organization it is. Accomodating and unambitious council representatives regularly forego controversial confrontation and concentrate on the mundane tasks of doling out small sums of money to small student organizations. But the limits on its faculty charter and its status as a student extracurricular activity severely limit its potential. The council...