Word: zithers
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Last week, on the chill wharf, the surviving relatives heard the roll call of the Portland's dead for the last time. As each name was called, survivors threw flowers on the ebbing tide. A woman played Rock of Ages on a zither. It was the last meeting. The old were ailing, the young had no memories. Said Historian Snow: "After all, you've got to stop some time, and the 50th anniversary seemed to be a good time to stop...
This week, Manhattan concertgoers heard his latest oddity-a piece called Shatokh. Against a low rich moan of the violin, the piano sounded like one of the ancient Armenian zither-and lute-like instruments (kanoon, saz) that Hovhaness likes to imitate: there was little else but pluck-like repeated notes, connected occasionally by eddying swirls of sound. Suddenly, when it was about to verge on monotony, Shatakh just ended...
...member of his union-or just play for his friends. This means everyone from Spike Jones, whose City Slickers would rather murder a tune than play it, to Concert Violinist Joseph Szigeti; from Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong, the king of swing trumpeters, to Susan Reed, who plays a polite zither in nightclubs. Arturo Toscanini is an honorary member but other symphony conductors, like the men in their orchestras, are obedient members of Petrillo's union...
Susan Reed: Folk Songs and Ballads -Volume II (Victor, 6 sides). More in 20-year-old Susan Reed's artfully simple style. The singing (accompanied by Irish harp or zither) is uneven, but the best of it makes very pleasant listening. The album includes, among others, Danny Boy, Greensleeves (which Shakespeare mentions in The Merry Wives of Windsor) and the plaintive Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair. Performance: good...
Folk Songs and Ballads (Susan Reed, with zither and Irish harp; Victor, 6 sides). Twenty-year-old Susie's voice is sweet, her diction pure and her zither a little flat. A big attraction in Greenwich Village, her ways may be too sophisticated and stylized for plain folks. Performance: good...