Word: basse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...After years of wrestling his bull fiddle in & out of taxicabs, a Newark musician named Peter Ruggiero invented a collapsible bass viol which folds into a package no bigger than a saxophone case...
...gave Bartok plenty of chance for variety, e.g., a broad, majestic theme in full brass when Judith opens the door looking out upon Bluebeard's rich manorial lands; harp arpeggios when Judith comes upon door No. 6 and the pool of water signifying the vale of tears. Hungarian Bass Desire Ligeti and Soprano Olga Forrai had few standout moments; Bluebeard, with its conversational style of recitative and declamation, reminded some, of Debussy's Pelleas and Melisande. But Bartok's music, less fiercely dissonant and rhythmic, but more melodic than some of his later works, was indeed something...
...with 19 keys missing, and a harmonium. Salvaging and pasting together scraps of toilet paper and margins from book leaves, and writing with only a tip of lead from a pencil, Goldberg scored from memory the entire Beethoven Violin Concerto for his little orchestra. He gave the woodwind and bass parts to the harmonium, and gave the piano "all the noise of an orchestra...
Among those musically present were Hoagy Dunham on Piano, Dave Sutherland and his guitar. Walt Gifford with a set of drumsticks, Bruce Elwell on the trumpet, Oliver Taylor on the clarinet, Herb Levin on bass, and Larry Eanet, a formidable man on both trombone and piano...
...group is composed of Larry Eanet '52, trombone; Hoagy Dunham '52, bass; Dave Sutherland '50, guitar; Walt Gifford '52, drums; Bruce Elwell, Milton Academy, trumpet; Oliver Taylor, Belmont Hills School, clarinet; and Barbara Leacock, Wellesley, vocalist...