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An animation showing the behavior of a Leslie speaker when running. 1 = Horn enclosure 2 = Compression driver 3 = Treble motor 4 = Crossover 5 = Bass motor 6 = Woofer 7 = Drum enclosure 8 = Drum 9 = Cabinet Amplifier not pictured. The Leslie is specifically designed, via reproduction of the Doppler effect, to alter or modify sound.
Leslie assembled the speakers himself in his garage. [4] He produced speakers under various names before settling on Leslie as the universally accepted name by 1949. [5] Also in 1949, Leslie was granted a patent for his "rotatable tremulant sound producer," [6] the first of 48 patents that Leslie would acquire over the course of his career. [5]
[1] ” The band's sound and presentation tended to lump them into an avant garde category shared by other "noise-oriented" bands who may or may not have shared Morsel's instrumental abilities. Hussey revealed in the Moo interview that “Miriam runs her flute through a ‘Leslie’ cabinet (rotating horn), and she sings through her flute ...
The show opened at Theatre Royal in Nottingham on 3 August 1964, [1] and then toured the UK in anticipation of a London opening. Cocky was played by Norman Wisdom; Sir by Willoughby Goddard; The Kid by Sally Smith; The Girl by Dilys Watling; The Negro by Cy Grant; and Elaine Paige made her first professional appearance on stage in the chorus. [1]
Cellier, Leslie and Stephenson. Although billed as a "comic opera" like the popular Gilbert and Sullivan operas on the London stage at the same time, Dorothy was a key forerunner of the Edwardian musical comedy, bearing many of the attributes of that genre.
The Hard Way is a 1943 Warner Bros. musical drama film starring Ida Lupino, Dennis Morgan, and Joan Leslie.Directed by Vincent Sherman, it is based on a story by Irwin Shaw which was reportedly based on Ginger Rogers' relationship with her first husband Jack Pepper (whom she married in 1928 at age 17) and her mother Lela.
A burlesque is a literary, dramatic or musical work intended to cause laughter by caricaturing the manner or spirit of serious works, or by ludicrous treatment of their subjects. [1] The word derives from the Italian burlesco, which, in turn, is derived from the Italian burla – a joke, ridicule or mockery. [2] [3]
[6] Arts and culture scholar Alisa Solomon of The Nation described it as a "razzmatazz show-tune". [7] Theatrical reviewer David Cote of Timeout deemed it "the ultimate outsider's jazz romp". [8] Theater critic Peter Marks of The Washington Post called it "a bluesy elucidation of a politician's urge to be at the center of the action". [9]