Word: bassed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Disgusted with the lack of the "old-fashioned bull bass" in the Cornell glee club, an undergraduate in that university has offered the first heartfelt diagnosis of what is wrong with American education. "What this university needs," he says, "what all American universities need just now, is less intellect and more boys who shave blue and chew tobacco, and who, when they sing in the back room, can produce those rumbling profundo notes from the waist line...
...battle; King David sitting in judgment over his people, stroking the black wires of his beard with fingers that have forgotten the harp; David, old and a prophet, remembering past enchantments and past ills-this cycle in the sounds of a limited wind-choir, a piano, harmonium, celesta, double-bass and percussion, was heard last week in Manhattan -Arthur Honegger's "Symphonic Psalm," performed by the Society of the Friends of Music...
...engaged with two rows of levers. A maze of bright wires from the levers ran up into the bell tower, where hung a newly installed carillon, gift of John D. Rockefeller Jr. The carilloneur, Anton Breese, once assistant in the Cathedral of Antwerp, pushed a lever. The 9-ton bass bell sent its huge note jarring down the street like a slow blackbird. He pushed another, and the tenor bell, which weighs no more than an ordinary country dinner-clapper, spoke clear and high...
Mandolins, mandolas, guitars, violins, cellos, flutes, clarinets, mando-celloes and bass violas are all needed for the Mandolin Club. Many of these instruments, with piccoloes, trumpets, trombones, saxophones, cornets and drums are used by the Banjo Club. The Specialty Division concentrates on various musical and comical acts which are interspersed throughout the program to very the entertainment...
Last week was announced the appointment of the Buffalo lawyer-his firm is today Kenefick, Cooke, Mitchell & Bass-to be supreme judge in the financial affairs of Europe. He is henceforth President of the Arbitral Tribunal of Interpretation, a court which will be judge and divider between the Reparations Committee and the German Government. How and when and what reparations Germany must pay under the Dawes Plan are supernational questions to be determined in de- object to Mr. Gilbert's dictation. Germany may on some occasions object to Mr. Parker's dictation. What then? There...