61. The musicians played harmonicas, flutes, whistles, bulb horns, mouthpieces and a can of water suspended by a rope. 62. The musicians played together and then Shapko took a chorus. 63. The musicians play for free, spreading their particular word to the converted. 64. The musicians played drums, and Grant made the entire stage a drum that he tapped with his feet. 65. The recordings the group left behind were striking for their ripping velocity and the accuracy with which the musicians played complex arrangements. 66. The role the Philharmonic musicians played in the search saga is curious. 67. The same musicians would play for an audience, then change costumes, assume another band identity and perform music from a series of distinct eras. 68. There was often the feeling of worthwhile effort undermined not by how the musicians played but what they were playing on. 69. There is no pretense of objectivity in his approach to hiring, no blind final audition where the musician plays behind a screen. 70. These musicians might play music rooted in New Orleans or bebop, and play it well, then play a free piece outside of meter. |