Word: basse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pact that would allow Britain's R.A.F. to retain facilities at Nigerian airfields, Opposition Leader Awolowo, intent on embarrassing the government, cried out in outrage that the proposed pact was a "swindle" that would automatically involve Nigeria in war if Britain got in trouble. In his rich, rolling bass, Sir Abubakar fired back: "I have always regarded the leader of the Opposition as a good Christian; in Christianity as in Islam, it is a sin to tell a lie." While Awolowo stared grimly at the ceiling, the Assembly ratified the treaty by a vote...
...showdown between partners, the bigger name usually wins. Moore recalls that when he played for Chaliapin, the great Russian bass used to ham up the end of Schumann's Die beiden Grenadiere with a great theatrical gesture, causing the pianist's Nachspiel to be lost in the applause. "There was nothing I could do," says Moore. "Chaliapin was a great big chap more than six feet tall...
...Common Room and toyed with the acoustics for a while, with occasional sojourns to the beer table for lubrication. There were nine, as I recall: Dr. John C. Wells, Jr., coronet; Dr. John Merrill, clarinet; Dr. Charles Palioca (a dentist), trombone; Dr. Thomas Peebles, drums; Richard Wigginton, bass; Raymond Boshco, piano; Guy Garland, banjo; and Bob Johnson and Doug Hayward, guitars. It was like outside the Metropole, only a little warmer...
...surprise success as Amfortas in last summer's Parsifal at Bayreuth. Florida-born Negro Soprano Maroyne Betsch, 25, won rave reviews for her Salome with the Braunschweig Opera. In Bern, Tennessee-born Chloë Owen made outstanding debuts in Lohengrin and Mathis der Maler. Minnesota-born Bass-Baritone Keith Engen, 35, one of the stars of the Munich Opera, is so idolized in Germany that he obligingly changed the spelling of his first name to "Kieth" to make it easier for audiences...
...production did little to improve matters. The singing-by Baritone MacNeil in the title role, Soprano Leonie Rysanek and Mezzo-Soprano Rosalind Elias as the evil and good daughters of the King, Bass Cesare Siepi as a Jewish high priest-was generally good but rarely inspired. Conductor Thomas Schippers (who at 30 is the youngest conductor ever to open a Met season) whipped his orchestra through the score at a soprano-searing pace. The sets by Teo Otto and Wolfgang Roth were contradictory in style: an ornate realistic idol in one scene, a starkly abstract grillwork in another. Although...