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Dressed in a white tuxedo with black bellbottoms, Soloist Yamash'ta shuffled onto the stage, crouched behind his instruments while Ozawa unleashed a brass-heavy fanfare. After a menacing roll on the bass drum, Yamash'ta picked up speed and energy, began to ricochet from one instrument to another. Hair flopping, arms flying, he nudged, banged, tickled and teased the instruments. At one point he flailed away with both hands, simultaneously blowing onto bamboo sticks, kicking the prayer bells and rubbing his body frenziedly against the gongs. After it was all over, the audience gave him a standing...
...transform "the kitchen" (musicians' derisive label for the percussion section) into a dining room. "If I play Beethoven's Fifth 500 times in my life as an orchestra percussionist, what have I achieved?" he says. Adds Composer Tircuit: "What can a percussionist possibly do with a bass drum that will be interesting for any length of time? We've got to try to find a way to write pieces that are musically meaningful...
...exactly ten minutes after seven on Thursday evening, June 12, that Mrs. Lela Bass, 73, stood combing her long gray hair in the backyard of her white frame house in Port Neches, Texas. Casually she turned and saw for the first time an eerie outline etched in the plastic of her backdoor screen: a bearded, long-haired man with a halo, looking east toward a fig tree in the yard. It was, she was certain, Jesus Christ. Neighbors spread the word, and since then, more than 50,000 curious visitors have descended on the Bass home to share her vision...
...Tampering. The tide of visitors keeps a constant daily crowd of 300 to 500 people on hand from dawn until late evening, reducing the Bass's backyard to dust and littering it with Polaroid film waste. Mrs. Bass, though, rejoices that the vision has brought her 78-year-old husband back to churchgoing. She is undisturbed by the variety of reported visions ("Everyone's seeing what they need") and by the relic hunters who tore her fig tree apart for souvenirs and crushed what was left of it. ("Maybe the Lord intended for them to take it home...
...that looks like the picture of Christ we all know. There appears to have been no tampering with the screen." The most likely rational explanation is that the screen acquired the image by the effects of normal weathering and its juxtaposition over an inner screen. But for Mrs. Bass the image is a true "sign from God." She believes now that it explains a mysterious "revelation" she had some 35 years ago, when, one day in prayer, she saw "hundreds of saved people coming toward me." Saved or not, at week's end they were still coming...