Word: basse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Vincent Persichetti's Masquerade (1966) was the most recently composed and the most colorfully exciting offering. Beginning with a stunning passage for bassoons, saxes, and solo horn, the composition also contains a lovely oboe solo, and an evocative passage for flute, piccolo, and bass drum side. In addition, Persichetti calls for hammer and anvil, four timpani, xylophone, sizzle cymbal, ratchet, marimba sticks on suspended cymbals, and bare hands on snare drum. At the end of the composition, all these returned in a brilliant overall unity...
...Angeles-born Henry Lew is became the first Negro musician to play regularly with a major U.S. orchestra, joining the double-bass section of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. His real ambition, though, was to swap his bow for a baton. He got conducting experience in the military with the Seventh Army Symphony, and later organized the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. In 1961, he substituted for Igor Markevitch with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and within a few years he ranked as the outstanding Negro conductor in the U.S., though he had no orchestra...
...guess she'll have to fake it on her hour exams this semester. Ken Tigar, a tutor in German here, Paul Jones, and Fred Grandy, possess adaptable faces, voices, and dispositions. Grandy makes good use of his eyelids of all things. Joe Saah mugs too much behind the bass. John Forster is excellent at the piano and does the Bernstein bit well...
When the board demanded an investigation, the council, under leadership of then Mayor Elliott Roosevelt, adopted a resolution calling for dissolution of the board. Last week the Art Dealers Association of America charged that the authenticity of at least eleven of the most important paintings in the Bass Museum "is open to serious question...
Among the most suspect: a Vermeer Self-Portrait that Bass tried to auction off at Manhattan's Parke-Bernet in 1962. Since only 30 unchallenged Vermeers are known to exist, a genuine Vermeer should have brought as much as $1,000,000. But there were so few bidders for Bass's Vermeer that he was forced to buy it back...