Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weekly sessions, she had worked 42 hours, making retake after retake, to record 45 minutes of music. At 70 (her birthday is actually July 5), the somewhat mystic, sometimes earthy little Polish-born woman is the acknowledged high priestess of the harpsichord, the sweet-sounding, twangy-bangy instrument she rescued from oblivion 50 years ago. She did not need much preparation before sitting down to record...
...Added": in addition to nomination and entry fees. A race-track process to overcome knee and ankle injuries. A series of holes about an eighth of an inch deep is burned around the afflicted area with an instrument resembling an electric soldering iron. The "fired" leg, swollen and inflamed, is then painted for ten days with a strong iodine solution. Alleged result: it changes the chronic inflammation into an acute inflammation, and nature cures whatever Is wrong with the knee or ankle...
...kept mum on Russia's offer to end the Berlin blockade for fear it would spoil the treaty's chances. (No one thought to ask him why the Russians took part in such a deal.) Henry Wallace rattled on. The treaty, he cried, was "not an instrument of defense but a military alliance designed for aggression." Furthermore, it was a deal backed by U.S. big business, the Roman Catholic hierarchy and British imperialists, who were "whipping up a holy war" against communism. The pact, Wallace said, would turn Russia "into a wild and desperate cornered beast...
Perhaps to the outsider, rowing seems like a basically simple form of exercise, calling for nothing more than a plethora of muscle, especially between the ears. This viewpoint could not be more wrong. Propelling the $2000 instrument known as a shell through the water with any degree of success calls for more skill and coordination than the casual observer could possibly realize...
...among the musicians--there always are--but it is very unlikely that Munch will attempt to completely shake up the orchestra in order to make it sound like a French ensemble. Aside from the impracticality of such a step, Munch looks at the Boston Symphony as a completely different instrument from those he has led in France, not necessar-6The Boston Symphony's new conductor CHARLES MUNCH chats with his predecessor SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY after the Symphony Hall appearance of the Orchestre National of France last fall. the program, led by Munch, included a Toccata by Walter Plston, Naumberg Professor...