Word: basse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unlikely that anyone could be more eloquent. He does not set the Dies Irae ablaze as Toscanini did, but his performance has a steady incandescence. Honors also go to London's Philharmonia Orchestra, its huge chorus, and the four soloists, Soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Tenor Nicolai Gedda, Bass Nicolai Ghiaurov, and the especially lustrous Mezzo-Soprano Christa Ludwig...
Charlie Mingus is a short, hulking, brooding man who for years has been recognized as the greatest jazz virtuoso ever to thump a bass fiddle. At the Monterey Jazz Festival last week, his Meditations for a Pair of Wire Cutters demonstrated that he must be ranked among the greatest of jazz composers...
TRANSPORTATION & TRAVEL. There are several movies here, but the one to catch is From Here to There, a short short created by Saul Bass for the United Airlines exhibit. It shows the unique view of the earth that the airplane affords...
...Leapin'." At Carnegie Hall, Condon appeared to lead his crusty cronies through some "up and leapin' music." "Eddie's the guy who got us the jobs when we needed them," says Bass Player Bobby Haggart. The Carnegie Hall "salute" was, in fact, a benefit for Condon, 58, who will use the proceeds ($2,700) to help pay his hospital bills for a recent operation. "The youngest guy at Carnegie's Hole," says Condon, "was the doorman. There are not many young guys around who are interested in playing the old unconfined jazz. Music has survived some...
...group was formed 41 years ago by Tenor Joe Silvia and his brunette wife Jamie. Tired of road trips with bus-traveling bands, they settled in Chicago, took on a bass and a baritone as partners and began singing nothing but dog-chow arias and cantatas of smoke. "We wanted a normal life," says Joe, "children and a home. We wanted to try to live like other people do, and that is what we've done." They make a nice, normal $250,000 a year. Broadway Producers Cy Feuer and Ernie Martin, hearing Jamie's voice, once nibbled...