Word: basse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...policeman who enjoyed the music enough to step up and direct the Band in "Yo Ho!--the Good Ship Harvard." Bail was posted and the group was once again on its way to New York City. Of course the material trademark of the Harvard University Band is the huge bass drum the largest playable drum in the world--which is six feet in diameter and two feet in depth. The original drum, received in 1928, gave its last beat in January, 1955. In March a funeral service was conducted for the relic, launching a "Dimes for the Drum" campaign...
...like a toy torpedo. For an hour he worked over a 100-yd. stretch of water like a master artilleryman laying down a barrage pattern. Nothing happened. But Oscar Flanders, finest surf caster on Martha's Vineyard, knew better than to expect an easy strike from a striped bass-a silver-green fighter with a flippant challenge that turns men into lifelong, zealous pursuers...
...annual fall migration from Maine back to the Chesapeake Bay spawning grounds they had left last spring. Determined to intercept them, Oscar and fellow zealots were getting up in the middle of the night and tramping 100 miles of Vineyard beaches in the island's 14th annual Striped Bass Derby, which has drawn 1,200 fishermen from as far as California and Nova Scotia...
Maria Meneghini Callas, a famous diva. . .Soprano Giovanni Meneghini, her aging husband. . .Bass Elsa Maxwell, her trusted confidante Baritone Evangelia Callas, her estranged mother. . .Contralto Aristotle Onassis, a wealthy shipowner. . .Tenor Athina Onassis, his beautiful young wife. . .Mezzo...
...recently discovered Italian Jesuit philosopher whose lifelong ambition was not to compose music but to become canon at the Cathedral of Trento. Bonporti (1672-1749), who remained an ordinary priest and died brokenhearted, abandoned Corelli's standard concerto-grosso form, loaded his dialogues between violins, violas and bass with such a personal, rhythmic melody that he became a forerunner of 19th century romanticism...