Word: drums
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Little Drummer Boy (Johnny Cash; Columbia). One of the hitherto unreported visitors to the manger, it seems, was Country Singer Cash, bearing a tom-tom. In his sowbelly accent he recalls what happened: "The ox and lamb kept time/ I played my drum for Him/ I played my best for Him/ Then He smiled...
...EVENING CONCERT. Haydn, Symphony 103 (drum roll); Rachmaninoff, 'Cello Sonata; Vivaldi, Concerto in D for viola d'amore; Beethoen, Sonata 25 for piano, opus 79; Mendelssohn, Quartet no. 4; Ravel, Pavanne pour une Infante Defunte...
...rule was especially intricate in Ruanda. At the center stood the great Mwami (king), the absolute Lord Ever Just and descendant of Envoys from Heaven. He ruled through a council of wisemen and a college of Biru (jurists), who were the Keepers of the Fire and of the Royal Drum, the symbol of power...
...later he was to say, "People thought I fought for fame, but I only fought my way through from being the town fool and the family idiot.'' It was a long fight; Lindsay was 33 when Harriet Monroe printed General Booth (with its parenthetical instructions for bass drum, banjo and flute accompaniment) in her Poetry Magazine...
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