Word: instrumentality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...contract between the War Department and Harvard for the training of Stat Officers is expected to be extended in the near future. Whereas the present instrument is due to expire shortly, Headquarters AAF appears to desire more of these key men for the expanding Army than was contemplated a year...
...arouse, shall we say, the feelings of love." Last week Composer Cage offered this quartet for drums, rattle, woodblocks, and specially prepared piano, at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. The piano strings had been damped with rubber wedges and the interior strewn with nuts & bolts. The instrument gave forth a subdued whacking sound. While Composer Cage produced these percussive clunks, his assistants obliged with their own gentle taps and wallops...
...running out, irascible Carl asked for a C book. The ration board asked him to fill out a new application form. That request so empurpled the Daubendiek temper that for two hours on the night of Dec. 15 no Jefferson phone subscriber could get anything out of his instrument except a voice which said, variously, "Daubendiek speaking; no gas, no calls; speak to the rationing board" or "The service is kind of punk -just like the gasoline situation." One subscriber tore his phone from the wall by the roots for emotional relief. The muted town foamed at the mouth...
Most of the well-known compositions were grouped so as to feature the soloists in the orchestra. But as Duke was so careful to avoid having two people playing the same style on the same instrument, there was no real opportunity to appraise Ray Nance's or newcomer Harold Baker's hot trumpet work. Which is just as well, as Rex Stewart stopped the show with his famous solo on "Boy Meets Horn." Rex did the best soloing of the evening, hitting new lows, in notes, that is. Nance played the violin instead, on "Bakiff," and came very close...
This week it looked as if Washington would give the escort program a real green light. It was too late to stew over past mistakes. The real challenge was to business-for on the success or failure of gear maker and instrument maker may rest the outcome of the Battle of the Atlantic...