Word: organisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Slippery Stitching. Surgeons have dreamed for centuries of making just the sort of replacement of a diseased or injured limb or organ that Dr. Barnard made last week. But when they tried to make their dreams reality, they found themselves encaged by invisible but seemingly invincible forces, mysterious beyond their understanding. Italian surgeons during the Renaissance occasionally succeeded in repairing a sword-slashed nose or ear with flesh from the patient's own arm, but got nowhere with person-to-person grafts. The first widely attempted transplants were blood transfusions, from lamb to man or man to man. Almost...
...minute study in mounting obsession. On other disks, Composer Henri Pousseur blends voices and taped sounds to make an airy sound-picture of the Belgian city of Liège, while Pauline Oliveros and Toshi Ichyanagi create broad, abstruse patterns by tinkering electronically with the sounds of chorus, organ and strings...
...Fisk organ, however, the keys make direct physical contact with the pipes. This mechanical action allows the organist greater control over a more brilliantly colored sound. With its 48 stops--knobs pulled to activate one or more ranks of pipes--and 75 ranks, the instrument "spoils you for playing any other," Ferris said...
From now on the organ will be used regularly in Memorial Church services, both as a solo instrument and for service and anthem accompaniments...
...organ will be spotlighted in a December concert by Anton Heiller, noted Viennese organist, and a series of eight dedicatory recitals on the Monday evenings of February and March...