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...vacant slot at a Johannesburg theatre, play the show as if they had never seen it before. Equally enthusiastic is Kendrew Lascelles, the chief comic, who also devised some of the choreography. Mr. Lascelles, periodically strolling on stage wearing a floor-length black coat and carrying a tuba that he cannot play, looks like a banana waiting to be peeled. He also has a way of bunching up his entire torso into his breast, a trick he's likely to pull anytime, anywhere, and for no rational reason...
...musical intentions of the first half of the program were set aside during intermission. The orchestra assembled on the stage with fewer strings than usual, with a mammoth tuba lurking at the rear of the brass section, and with several megatons of percussion prominently displayed. This artillery was lined up to attack Orff's Carmina Burana, at best a second rate piece of music but unfailingly successful as a spectacle...
...quite what we're used to." Battling wing ice and frozen gas lines instead of flak, pilots flew more than 1,000 mercy sorties. When an Air Force C-141 dropped 1,300 gal. of fuel oil and a team of paracommandos on Arizona's Tuba City (pop. 2,000), schoolchildren braved 10°-below-zero temperatures-to get the parachutists' autographs...
Click. Hummmm. Is everybody in the band plugged in? Everybody can be, for nowadays nearly every standard instrument from the violin to the tuba is getting wired for sound. So pervasively is electric current spreading through the music industry that amplified and amplifying devices made by far the loudest noises in Chicago last week at the annual trade show of the National Association of Music Merchants. One manufacturer alone (Vox, a subsidiary of Thomas Organ Co.) displayed 64 electronic instruments and gadgets. Some of the most notable-or at least most audible-new products on view: >The Conn Corp...
...symphony orchestra, the tuba is like a ship's engine: it produces a rumble that is hardly noticeable when it is there, but is sorely missed when it is not. Thus it was a serious matter when the San Francisco Symphony learned recently that its stellar tuba player, Ronald Bishop, had been lured away by the Cleveland Orchestra. In its search for a replacement, the San Francisco Symphony rejected all the local candidates. That sent the Musicians' Union into a huff, and the orchestra had to take the union to court before it could carry its talent hunt...