Word: piccolos
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...electronics in music.* His argument: the orchestra can be made more subtle by use of an instrument capable of sounds that bridge the tonal gaps between strings and winds, give pitch to the dull thud of the bass drums, play lower than a double bass and higher than a piccolo. The idea has caught on: dozens of electronic instruments have been developed, the latest of which is RCA's Synthesizer, unveiled four months ago, which can reproduce the sound of any musical instrument...
...been prepared for President Truman. The walls were painted robin's-egg blue, there was a television set and a spinet. Said Pride: "Goodness gracious, what's going on in this boudoir?" Actually, the spinet was not a bad idea: Pride likes to make music, plays the piccolo, flute, harmonica and ocarina...
...might have been written by a latter-day Brahms, its three movements definitely dissonant but never harsh. High point of the concert was Ravel's Daphnis et Chloe Suite No. 2, in which the strings provided a deep, sunset-colored perspective for the shrill syrinx tones of the piccolo, and the brasses built easily to a sweeping culmination. There were subtle orchestral colors that listeners had never heard before, but for all the music's impressionist vagueness, it never seemed cloudy. The concert ended with a performance of Brahms's First Symphony, so magnificently traditional that...
Music-minded Tucson, which turned out 2,400 strong, liked what it heard. Composer Kay is modern, as befits a onetime student of Composer Paul Hindesmith−but modern in thoroughly listenable fashion, as befits a man who has played saxophone and piccolo in a Navy band and has written a successful film score (for The Quiet One). Of New Horizons started and ended with plenty of brass, but in the middle it made appealing use of melodic interweavings in the strings. And though Composer Kay's melody kept getting interrupted by conflicting ideas, it also kept coming back...
...Harvard, he earned part of his way playing for dances at Wellesley with a band of his own (he played piccolo and piano). He played center on the basketball team, headed Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Harvard's last remaining national fraternity. He majored in economics (B average), neither smoked nor drank (he likes an occasional drink now), but was not above staying up all night playing low-stake bridge and poker...