Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Virtuoso Instrument. By any description it could boast of remarkable achievements. It homogenized waves of immigrants, inculcated morality without religious affiliation and boosted brainpower across the nation. From an eighth-grade education in 1940, the median schooling of adult Americans has risen to 10.8 years (and will be 12.2 by 1965). Against 95,000 graduates in 1900, U.S. high schools this year produced 1,500,000, and half of them are going to college. And out of public schools in every corner of the land have marched armies of the nation's future leaders...
...sins is necessary, and in accordance with the divine commandments" But Luther was dead set against the Roman Catholic obligation to confess before receiving Communion. Confession, he felt, should be voluntary, and Christians must be clear that their absolution comes only from God; otherwise, he argued, confession becomes an instrument of oppression in the hands of the church. Luther's own formula for absolution: "Dost thou believe that my forgiveness is God's forgiveness?" (Penitent answers yes). "As thou believest, so shall it come to pass. By command of our Lord Jesus Christ I forgive thee thy sins...
...have studied under Salzedo and many are sure to play at least one of the master's compositions. It could be no other way. At 74, the sprightly Basque musician stands at the top of his art, a man who has spent a lifetime studying "the angels' instrument." teaching others to play and the world to enjoy its mellow music. Salzedo. says Conductor Leopold Stokowski, "has expanded our whole understanding of the harp...
Salzedo turned to the harp itself, transformed its physical aspect by replacing the fussy gold with businesslike polished maple. Salzedo then experimented with compositions for the harp, made it into a versatile solo instrument. Says Modernist Composer Edgar Varese: "Carlos is an innovator, an adventurer. He has succeeded in changing the sex of the harp -minimizing its golden aura of Victorian femininity; he has discovered and explored its virility...
Eighteenth Century Recorder Music (The Recorder Consort; Classic Editions). Charming, lively chamber works by Alessandro Scarlatti, Jean-Baptiste Loeillet (1680-1730), Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767) and Bach, proving that the flutelike recorder, usually belittled as an amateur's instrument, can be as stimulating a voice as any woodwind...