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...gave her the cue. Then Kostelanetz turned gracefully away from Washington's National Symphony Orchestra to a man standing in front of the podium, who promptly let fly across the stage with a bowling ball and scored a clean-and noisy-strike. Kostelanetz beamed at the rumble and thud. A few minutes later the music sped up to sound like a bustling city: a rescue-squad man started a wailing siren, a park policeman astride his motorcycle to the right of the stage blew his whistle...
Incoherent Themes. His introduction of the Martenot in 1928 made Maurice Martenot a pioneer of 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...
...heard a thud on the mat and looked up. Bob Ogden was rubbing his left shoulder. "Was that an Uchi-Mata?" he asked his opponent, foigning civility...
There was another thud, and Ing walked off rubbing his right hip. "Protty good," he admitted...
There's No Business Like Show Business (20th Century-Fox) is another picture that does a lot of big-name-dropping -Ethel Merman, Dan Dailey, Donald O'Connor, Mitzi Gaynor, Marilyn Monroe and Johnnie Ray-and some of the names drop with a big thud. The show is an Irving Berlin potpourri, containing some good old sweetmeats along with a few fresh-picked sour apples. The mixture will probably simmer steadily at the box office, even though fussy moviegoers feel they have reached the Berlin point. Singer-Dancer Mitzi Gaynor has a figure that suggests a finely machined...