Word: zithers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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DOCTOR ZHIVAGO (MGM). A 110-piece symphony orchestra, reinforced with 24 balalaika players and a section of Japanese instruments including a samisen, a koto and a 6-ft. gong (valued at $3,000), plus organ, novachord, electric sonovox, harpsichord, electric piano, tack piano and zither, plays Maurice Jarre's Oscar-winning score. The variety of instruments would be more interesting if the listener could pick them out, but they all seem to play at once. One haunting tune, Lara's Theme, emerges-but just barely...
Music fills the evening, and the instruments have such wondrous personalities that they sometimes threaten to upstage the cast. Among those played are the mbira, timbila, kalimba, guitar-lute, Lozi drums, tampura drone, bamboo pipe, Japanese koto zither, and double respiratory linguaphone. These vary in appearance from hollowed-out Halloween pumpkins to xylophones seemingly made of baby elephant tusks. The chief players, Andrew and Paul Tracey, are equally adept with bagpipes, clarinets, flutes and tubas. Of the three fetching girls, Dana Valery has a voice of expressive authority and distinctive beauty. She has the show's tenderest numbers, folk...
...museum's strengths. Great Renaissance paintings, still in short supply despite loans of Botticellis, Van Dycks, and an individual Bellini, Giorgione and Canaletto from the Norton Simon Foundation, share space with Andrea di Orcagna's incomparable trecento marbles of musicians with musette, timbrel and zither, like pearly leprechauns playing away the centuries...
...Department-sponsored tour of the Far East and Africa, Folk Singers Steve Addiss, 29, and Bill Crofut, 30, have spent the last month hopscotching around the outlying villages in war-torn Viet Nam. Armed with a banjo, two guitars, a flute, a French horn and a 16-string Vietnamese zither called a dan tranh, they sang in schools and hospitals, in the streets and rice fields. They sang American, Vietnamese, Indonesian and Cambodian folk songs, often to a thumping chorus of artillery and mortar fire, slept on wooden planks, hitchhiked rides on Air Force planes...
...first to depart from the prewar formula laid down by such old masters as Max Steiner, who has written more than 200 scores. Leonard Bernstein's On the Waterfront and Alex North's Streetcar Named Desire were part of the same revolt. The Third Man's zither score had an insistent, mechanical inevitability that suggested a man out of control of his fate. Viva Zapata! rang with the violent sound of revolution, and Breakfast at Tiffany's, for which Henry Mancini wrote one of the best film scores ever, was lighted with a sweet ambiance that...