Word: tympanists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...movie studios, which have first call on his musicians, are his biggest worry. His favorite Hollywood story: "Only a tympanist was present for all four rehearsals before an important concert. When the conductor congratulated him, he said 'Thank you, Maestro-but I'm afraid I can't make the performance...
...cold baths, his raw carrots, and the increasing national austerity. Said the Economist: "However right Sir Stafford is at present, it is difficult to suppress the suspicion that he is right because he is in his element, because he positively prefers an austere, restricted, controlled economy, because, like the tympanist in an orchestra, his instinct, when he has nothing else to do, is to go around tightening up all the screws...
Personnel shortages exist now in the string section, especially among the violas, and the group needs bassoon players and one more tympanist...
...violinists is a Sears, Roebuck shoe salesman, another is president of the company that makes Golden Glint Hair Rinses. The tympanist is an investment banker. For 25 years the 109-piece Chicago Business Men's Orchestra has been entertaining their friends, their families-but mostly themselves-with their music...
...Town Hall, the kitchen strayed into the parlor. For days, white-haired, wispy Composer Bela Bartok, famed Hungarian modernist, had rehearsed the first performance of a Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion Instruments. He and his pretty, blue-eyed wife, Ditta Pasztory, played the piano parts. New York Philharmonic Tympanist Solly Goodman and Cymbal & Gong Virtuoso Henry Denecke, surrounded by seven drums, two pairs of cymbals, a triangle and a xylophone (some of them played with their feet), had grown as skittish as a couple of prima donnas. But by the time they got it whipped into shape, the sonata...