Word: woode
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sheds. The musicians live in the students' dormitories, which are either converted farm buildings or handsomely modern wood-and-glass structures, or in nearby cottages. Practice time is unlimited, and practice space is a musician's dormitory room, a laboratory, or one of the sheds scattered through the woods of the old 300-acre farm on which the college was started in 1947. Thus the woods are full of sounds and sweet airs. When players think a work is ready, a decision will be made whether to perform it privately at an informal concert for fellow musicians...
Psalms, like its predecessor, is a choral work in Hebrew and is scored for a prodigious cavalcade of instruments including a glockenspiel, xylophone, a pair of cymbals, a suspended cymbal, tambourine, triangle, rasps, whip, wood block, three temple blocks, timpani, snare drum, bass drum and three bongo drums. Conductor-Composer Bernstein made the most of them; he went through his entire ballet routine on the podium and had the Philharmonic Orchestra playing like gods, and the Camerata Singers sounding like angels...
Strict Sabbaths kept by the Pennsylvania Dutch led to "Sabbath toys" or whirligigs. To entertain the children when boisterous play was banned, soldiers, firemen, Indians and, one suspects, parodies of the neighbors, were carved in wood with paddles for arms, painted and propped on the front porch or fence posts to whirl and jiggle at the slightest whiff of a breeze. They were often intricately animated. One, called Farm Industry, made about 1880, shows a long-skirted woman churning butter while her farmer husband, in the doorway of a barn, sharpens his tools on a grindstone. It doubled...
...taverns, chanting "We want booze! We want beer!" When a handful of police officers tried to quiet them down, someone shouted, "Hey, punk! We're going to take over the place!" and the riot was on. Armed with chunks of cement, rocks, beer bottles and splintered wood, they charged the cops, then smashed in the windows of cars and lighted a bonfire in front of one of the taverns. Police had to be called in from three towns, along with National Guardsmen, before peace was restored...
...found myself within a gloomy wood...