Word: woodwind
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...flat, the lowest tone in music that is not just a grunt, is sounded in orchestras by the contrabassoon or the contrabass tuba. Beethoven used the big woodwind in his Ninth Symphony. Haydn in his Creation, Brahms in his First Symphony. Wagner used the mighty mouthed tuba to plumb the murky depths of his Niebelungen Ring...
Sacre. The curtain went up on some 40 Russian peasants, all adolescent youths and girls, dancing in a turbid wheel-like formation to woodwind music which was restive, foreboding. A haggish old woman interrupts, one who knows the secrets of Nature, of Spring. The adolescents whom she comes to enlighten are still of undetermined sex. They mix happily, spontaneously, but Spring is the season for fertility, for recreation. The groups seperate, quarrel, play self-consciously for the first time. A sage appears, the eldest the clan. Face down he asks the bless of the earth and new energy comes seizes...
...long been something of an axiom among musicians that for outdoor concerts the band is the thing. It has been thought that the weaker voice of the orchestra, with its soft strings and woodwind, was lost in an open space. This idea is changing. The cause of the change is to be found in the improvement in sounding boards. An orchestra playing in front of and partly under a great, cavern-like sound deflector contrives to project its tone to the audience quite acceptably...
...opportunity for all undergraduate members of the University to join the Dramatic Club orchestra will be given at trials to be held this afternoon between 4 and 6 o'clock at Stoughton 10. Violins, cellos and woodwind and brass instruments are needed for the orchestra, which will play at the spring performances of the club, which take place on May 17, 18, 20 and 21. Two men from the orchestra are elected members of the Dramatic Club each year...
...sixty-eight active graduate and undergraduate members, and is so arranged that in case of necessity two bands can be quickly organized. An interesting and rather novel feature of the Band is the inclusion of a number of stringed instrument players in addition to the customary brass and woodwind section. The Band has eight violinists, three 'cellists, and two string basses. This section aids very materially in concert work by softening and rounding out the brass section...