Word: schellenbaum
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...brassy dignity, an odd-looking contraption stood on the stage of Chicago's Orchestra Hall one night last week. It was a Schellenbaum (bell tree), an instrument of Moorish origin, looking like a brass Christmas tree hung with bells and horse tails. It is the only Schellenbaum owned by a U. S. orchestra. The Chicago Symphony, which got it as a gift from the late Composer Camille Saint-Saëns, trots it out rarely. But last week, when the Symphony began its soth season, its 36th under the still competent baton of stooped, white-haired old "Papa" Frederick...
...when Papa Stock entered, lifted his baton to begin a Festival Fanfare which he had written for the jubilee. Next to Stainer's Sevenfold Amen, the Fanfare was probably the longest (ten minutes) ever composed, gave every instrument in the orchestra something to do, finally had even the Schellenbaum (manned by a percussionist) shaking like a hula dancer...
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