Word: tuba
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...children's work, and the programmatic nature of the music was easy to hear. The first movement, "Two Ghosts," sounded as spooky as the name might have implied. Eerie, gentle phrasing underscored the motion of the "High Ghost" and the "Low Ghost" between the chimes and glockenspiel and the tuba and low strings. An unusually quiet orchestra exquisitely realized the dissonance. (HRO is master of the loud; exuberant finales seemed continually to hit new heights of forte during the concert.) The dramatic dynamic shift was especially effective since the next movement, "Warrior," opened with a drum shot like a pistol...
...family had just moved from the hills of upstate Mississippi to the shipyard town of Pascagoula, so Lott entered the seventh grade as a stranger. He was too slight for such sports as football, so he played tuba in the band. And he had such a space between his front teeth that he was nicknamed...
...lied seemed to be the organizing principle of the whole concert) and is simply charming. Much of the pleasure of this movement is in the anticipation of the theme's return. The tempo was faster than usual, but utterly effective. All the players were beautifully coordinated; even the tuba performed its dramatic role with great grace...
...your significant other or when your favorite childhood pet runs away. True--coping at Harvard is not a new thing. Freshman year we tolerated and even grew to love the roommate who never took showers, constantly referred to itself in the third person, and insisted on practicing the tuba at 7 a.m. on weekends. Likewise, slowly but surely we even came to accept that pre-meds are not automatons but members of the human race as well...
...Sanders Theater. Instead, the orchestra gamely offered up a trancelike Wagner overture, a defiantly modernist Stravinsky ballet and--strangest of all--a bassoon concerto. While Wagner and Stravinsky are hardly obscure, it's not every day that you get to hear the bassoon--an instrument that ranks with the tuba and bass in ungainliness--dominate the stage...