Word: timpani
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prosaic love triangle is established on a remote banana plantation-a planter (the book's nameless narrator), his wife and a neighboring plantation owner. If this were one of Paul Bowles's African novels of sin and sun, the weather would cloud up on cue, providing a timpani accompaniment to the heroine's rages. Robbe-Grillet cheerfully invents a greater fault. Obsessed by the reality of objects, he describes them endlessly, and then repeats his descriptions-a column that casts a shadow, a squashed centipede, the location of a window, of a garden. In one maddening three...
Professor Harold C. Schmidt, director of the chorus, has announced that the Mozart work requires a small orchestra of woodwinds, trombones, timpani, and strings. Interested parties may contact him at the Music Building, extension 2791, or in Sever 11 on Tuesday and Thursday evenings...
...requirements from my students are so extravagant that they have little time for personal life"). Himself a onetime viola prodigy, he made his conducting debut with the Berlin Philharmonic when he was 20. In his years of battling for new works, he has developed a reputation of being the timpani-tempered tyrant of European music. He generally bans composers from rehearsals of their own works, never hesitates to cut whole passages from new works he disagrees with...
...having launched a top-notch series, the sponsor (Lincoln) marred it by ill-chosen sales pitches. In the midst of Beethoven's biggest score was a commercial with slick, whiny music (written by a freelance arranger named Mitch Lee). And immediately after the triumphant choral movement, while the timpani had scarcely stopped vibrating and the listener was still under the spell of the music, an oily announcer's voice heralded a "visit with Mrs. Igor Cassini," who then proceeded, on film, to demonstrate the charms of the new Lincoln Continental...
...concession to the inadequacies of the organ, timpani were used with powerful and at times terrifying effect. But the apocalyptic climaxes were achieved at the price of turning the second chorus into a kettledrum concerto, and the theatricality of this novel compromise did not blend well with the rest of the performance...