Word: snares
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...central character, a mysterious psychiatrist called Sir Henry Harcourt-Reilly, who is given to gin-and-water and gnomic observations, is played by Sydney Walker with a kind of arch exaggeration that would surely prove more off-putting than compelling to the delicate souls he is out to snare...
...jump around like I do to get the kids jumping too. Look at the other group they just stood there. They were playing too complicated, too static, very difficult to get that off the ground." He turned to Waller "I really like it when you tap on the snare and do the tom-tom at the same time. Its really deep you know what I mean." Again the bewitching London accent...
...composer, Kraft, 44, obviously is not afraid to be bold theatrically. The huge rear screen, on which the films were projected, was not the only innovation. At the end of the first movement, Kraft provided a brief interlude of jazz in which a solo violinist and snare drummer were picked out by spotlights in the darkened hall. Then at the end, he bid the audience a cheerful adieu with the rippling tinkle of an offstage jazz quartet...
...passage for bassoons, saxes, and solo horn, the composition also contains a lovely oboe solo, and an evocative passage for flute, piccolo, and bass drum side. In addition, Persichetti calls for hammer and anvil, four timpani, xylophone, sizzle cymbal, ratchet, marimba sticks on suspended cymbals, and bare hands on snare drum. At the end of the composition, all these returned in a brilliant overall unity...
Small Comfort. Such delay, however, could prove costly in the end by enabling the smaller and slower (1,450 m.p.h.) Anglo-French Concorde to snare more of the global SST market. At stake is a potential $40 billion in foreign orders for the U.S. plane, which would help the balance of payments. For the moment, the U.S. can take small comfort from delays abroad. Though the Concorde prototype was originally supposed to make its maiden flight next week at Toulouse, chances are that it will be another three months getting off the ground...