Word: basse
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Margaret started piano lessons at age five, and by eight knew that she wanted to become a conductor. She set about mastering a wide variety of orchestral instruments; she tooted the baritone horn in her high school band and played the double bass in the orchestra at Indiana University. She was also a junior golf champion and a wartime civilian flying instructor for the Navy. When she graduated from college in 1947, one of her teachers warned her that orchestra conducting was a male preserve, and so she went to the Juilliard School to study choral conducting with Robert Shaw...
...piety and commerce, the C.B.A. meeting is the central show of a big business that reflects the shift toward Evangelicalism throughout U.S. religion. The 2,100 C.B.A. stores, which emphasize Evangelical works, grossed $303 million last year and should reach $350 million to $375 million for 1976, estimates John Bass, 50, the able Presbyterian who runs the C.B.A. When Bass first began coming to the conventions, they were populated largely by folks in their 50s who ran dusty little Mom-and-Pop Bible stores. Religion bookshops nowadays are bigger, better located and reaching many more customers. According to the association...
Porgy is the first major role for Louisiana-born Donnie Ray Albert, 26. He is a find. As the crippled hero he acts on his knees better than most young operatic hopefuls do on their feet, and he has a booming bass-baritone voice. Wilma Shakesnider has just the right blend of vibrant lyricism and common-sense demeanor to make Serena an appropriately righteous foil to Bess. Larry Marshall's Sportin' Life could use a touch more evil but is admirable in his dandified elusiveness. The depth of this cast is suggested by the presence of the veteran...
...host attacked the problem with typical verve: he and his younger brother Billy and son Chip, 26, partially drained the pond, plunged in as deep as their shoulders and netted the fat catfish, bass and bream that were swimming around. Later, Carter and other amateur cooks dredged the fish in corn meal, deep fried the catch over open coals for 15 minutes in boiling peanut oil (of course), piled it into brown paper bags to absorb the fat and then dished it up with hush puppies, coleslaw and home-grown tomatoes...
There has been a flourishing in instrumentation too. Anything that whistles or bleats has been electrified?flute, string bass, tenor sax. There are wah-wah pedals on trombones, electronic keyboards, Moog Synthesizers, Mini Moogs, Micro-Mini Moogs, and last ?and perhaps least?the Alembic Bass with Instant Flanger.* The new machinery is just one more example of how jazz keeps expanding. Says Deejay Charlie Perkins of Boston's WBUR, "Jazz is borrowing the whole electrical thing...