Word: basse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Government, which had waited so long before acting-until Harry Truman could bring himself to invoke the Taft-Hartley Act-moved laboriously along the legal front. This week, in the ultimate stage of the crisis, the United Mine Workers' bow-tied, bass-voiced Attorney Welly Hopkins appeared before Federal Judge Richmond Keech. In obedience to Judge Keech's Taft-Hartley order, the union had twice instructed its 370,000 idle miners to go back to work. They had disregarded the instructions. But the Government maintained that the union was still responsible for their actions. The judge had ordered...
...Black. In those days John was Ivan Jadan, and Russian critics compared him enthusiastically to Leonid Sobinov, who 40 years ago sang tenor to Chaliapin's bass. His more ardent admirers called him "the Russian Caruso." Ivan lived in Moscow's most modern apartment house with his wife Olga and his son Alexander, enjoyed the special privilege of shopping in the luxury stores reserved for the new Soviet aristocracy. There was only one wrong note: Jadan was not a party member...
Bach: St. Matthew Passion (Elfriede Troetschel, soprano; Diana Eutrati, contralto; Friedrich Haertel, bass; D. Fi-scher-Dieskau, baritone; Helmut Kreps, tenor; Boys' Choir of St. Hedwig's Cathedral, the augmented choir and orchestra of the Berlin Radio, Fritz Lehmann conducting; Vox, 8 sides LP). One of the first postwar German recordings. Bach's great score is unabridged, the orchestra and chorus are fine, the soloists are good. Recording: excellent...
Bloch: Sacred Service (Marko Rothmuller, bass-baritone; Dorothy Bond, soprano; Doris Cowan, contralto; the London Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra, Ernest Bloch conducting; London FFRR, 2 sides LP). Bloch's beautiful and powerful setting of the Hebrew texts used in Reform temples in the U.S. Performance and recording: excellent...
Come Out? An hour and a half later, the bloodhounds set up a great bass clamor outside a potato shack on the farm of ex-Moonshiner Turner's father. Hogjaw, who likes to boast that he can outrun a horse, was right with the dogs, but the main body of cops all saw fit to maintain a respectful distance and await eventualities. Hogjaw pulled his gun, fired six shots into the shack and bravely bawled: "Come out, you sons of bitches...