When new drugs are synthesized [1], dust particles are brought back from space [2], or new superconductors are discovered [3], a variety of sophisticated X-ray microscopes, spectrometers, and scattering instruments are often summoned to characterize their structure and properties.
It was a fusion of equals, respecting differences as much as similarities: the liquid microtonal curves of the sarod lines and the twangy urgency of the steel guitar, the disparate modes of each idiom, the separate kinds of percussive acceleration each instrument could summon on the way to a big finish.
Mr. Jung's frayed instrument can still summon the volume the role requires, and the grotesque accents in his final scene bespeak a wicked theatricality formerly held in check.
Now played with a percussive technique, the guitars were made to imitate the rippling, interlocking melodies of the mbira specifically, those of the mbira dzavadzimu, the instrument used to summon the Shona ancestral spirits.
By Russell Platt Harry Partch's world of sound can only be summoned by the unique and exotic instruments he created.
Only later, when he was summoned to a meeting with Björk, did he learn that she planned to commission "a new instrument that would harness a force of nature".
It was amid this financial strain that the president of the N.J.S.O., Lawrence Tamburri, was summoned to meet with Herbert and Evelyn Axelrod one night after a concert and was told that $50 million worth of stringed instruments could be his at half-price.
"In public school at that time they supplied instruments, you could play in a group, they'd teach you whatever instrument you want," he summons from experience.
His voice still a powerful instrument, even as the thick mane of hair has fallen away from the left side of his scalp, Mr. Kennedy summoned the crowd with his trademark Boston accent.
The police were summoned.
