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Barbara Ackermann, Mayor of Cambridge, and Alan Altshuler, Cambridge Secretary of Transportation, led the motorcade--or rather pedalcade--to demonstrate the pedal car as a non-polluting method of transportation...
...about 4 p.m. yesterday, a caravan of ten "pedal cars" left Harvard Square and rolled amidst the traffic of Mt. Auburn St. towards Putnam Square...
...effect is roughly like listening to medieval organum (primitive polyphony) done up in the manner of Switched-On Bach. Beyond the "accidental" harmonies achieved by the passage of contrapuntal ships in an electronic night, Boulez also uses what he calls pilot tones (not unlike pedal point) to achieve, at times, gripping harmonic tension. All in all, Boulez has made a daring experiment in what might be called kaleidosonics...
...Vanknit." With her right hand, she picks a button out of the box on a small side table, and lays it in a slot of her machine. With her left hand, she positions the cloth, using a mark on the machine. Her foot, and her green slipper, depress a pedal, and the machine places the button down and news eight quick stitches of light blue thread in half a second. As she slides the material into position for the next button, she picks another button...
...hatching his epic. Another solution, it might be added, would be luring composers from their suburban comfort to play their own music. Until then, he notes, one thing that can alleviate stage fright is "the absolute certainty of a botched performance." In coming upon a piano with a sticky pedal or a defective hammer action, says Rosen, "one is reduced to doing one's best...