Word: tenors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...make them into musical instruments. They divided the heads into pie-shaped segments, peened them until each segment gave on': a separate musical note when struck with padded sticks. For "bass booms" the drums were left full length, for baritones they were, chopped in half, for the "tenor pans" they were sliced thin. Then half a dozen Trinidadians foregathered, added maracas and woodblock players, and they had a "steel band." Trinidad alone now supports some 200 such bands, and the demand for the music has erupted throughout the Caribbean. A fine sample on LP is now available: The Brute...
...tunes of torchy temper, sung with a fine ear for theatrical effect, e.g., the long, aching swoop, the insinuating droop, the ecstatic quaver, the lilting bounce, the suggestive growl. Tenor Short accompanies himself on the piano...
That was enough for Brownlee. Last June he moved his family to Ellenville, N.Y. (pop. 5,000), enlisted the aid of a hotel owner and a tenor-turned-businessman. By last week 110 acres had been converted into festival grounds containing a 4,000-seat amphitheater, a stage that could be adapted for concerts or theater-in-the-round, and floodlights etching the surrounding trees-hemlock, white pine, maple and cherry. The Empire State Music Festival was ready for business. The opening concert (Beethoven and Brahms) was conducted by Holland's standout Eduard van Beinum; the next night...
...majority report of the Reece committee expressed the tenor of the testimony unfavorable to the foundations. But throughout the hearings Representative Wayne L. Hays (D.Ohio) supported the position of private philanthropy. In his dissent from the committee report, he strongly attacked the tactics and findings of the majority...
...Harvard may be quiet but they also must strong, for with the exception of a few changes of emphasis, many have survived the almost three decades that have passed since that September. Changes like the House system, Reading Period, and Lamont Library have transformed segments but the general tenor of undergraduate life remains. What the returning member of the Class of 1930 will probably notice most are not the changes, but the similarities between the present College and the one he remembers...