Word: tympanis
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Present inventory would indicate that the Pierian, with its new ideas and new talent, is going to enjoy one of the most successful seasons in years. The tympani, finie, and violin sections are considerably strengthened, as recent by cuts have revealed now talent, including many pupils of Leopold Auer and other teachers in Europe and America...
...Molton G., Robert T., Rand 1G., Nilakanta Sastry 2 GB, Royal S. Schaaf '39, and Francis M. Schull 1G. Cellos: Paul A. Alexander '39, Arthur D. Gardiner '39, and Philip E. Morin '39. French horn: Sidney R. Ballou '35. Trombone: Russell B. Edmond '39. Viola: Eit Cantor 1L. Tympani: N. James Dain '39. Bass drum: Sherwood D. Fox '39. Librarian: Harold L. Golden...
Katerina thereafter has lovely lyrical music, played by tender strings. Upstairs in the bedroom she takes off her slippers, braids her hair. The percussions sound a tap-tap-tap and Sergei boldly enters. The rape scene which follows is probably the loudest in history, an uproar of brasses, tympani, cymbals. Shostakovich again uses a waltz, this time to satirize the prowling father-in-law who catches Sergei as he climbs out the window. In the flogging scene the audience could fairly hear the swish of the whip. When the father-in-law lay dying, Soviet scorn of the church...
...strength had not gone with his beard. He spread his arms wide and the orchestra sounded quietly, richly. Then Baritone Schorr, whose father was a cantor, started to intone the Mali Tovu ("How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob"). The chorus rose to one climax after another. Cymbals and tympani triumphed over melancholy woodwinds. In the epilog, Baritone Schorr abandoned Hebrew for English: "May the time not be distant, O God, when Thy Name shall be worshipped in all the Earth. . . ." It was Bloch's way of showing that in spirit his Service was universal, as much for Gentiles...
...himself red in the face over his French horn. Boston still has Richard Burgin playing first violin. Jean Bedetti first 'cello. In Philadelphia sleek Anton Torello still wields the big bull fiddle; Oscar Schwar, who was a drummer-boy in the Imperial German Army, still presides over the tympani...