Word: foghorn
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...four descriptive movements-"Gold Rush," "Bohemian Nights," "Mauve Decade" and "1906-1960"-all of them as cliché-ridden as any Mirror Sunday feature. But the composition was stuffed with enough acoustical effects to keep any Grofé fan awake and happy: a clanging cable-car bell, a foghorn, Chinese gongs and temple blocks, the clippity-clop rhythms of a hansom cab. The most rousing movement was the last, which was chiefly devoted to the great earthquake (Grofé's simulated explosions had several musicians leaping in terror from their seats). The piece ended with a fanfare based...