Word: bassed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sunday evening in Symphony Hall a recital by Feodor Chaliapin, the great Russian bass. As usual Mr. Chaliapin will announce his programme from the concert stage. He will be assisted by Abraham Sepkin, violinist, and Max Rabinovitsch, pianist...
Except for his mishap in French- farcically supposed to have been due to a Democratic professor-John Coolidge has commended himself to the famed little New England College. He will never play on an important varsity team. But he sings first bass in the glee club and may eventually become its leader, although this post usually goes to a tenor. He has been initiated into his father's fraternity (Phi Gamma Delta). He has met with decorum all the customary American assaults upon the dignity of a freshman (they once made him speak half an hour from a soapbox...
...that enchant or dominate the air of Balieff's Bat. From the piercing shriek of Katinka, through the lyric beauty of the soprano, the sombre resignation of the contralto, the passion of the tenor, the expansiveness of the baritone, to that epitome of Slavdom, the resonance of a Russian bass--all were perfection in every register; a complete organ in themselves, though composed only of the vox humana
...greatest Symphonic leader. Born at Tver, in the north of Russia, M. Koussevitsky began the study of music very early in life. At the age of twelve he led the Municipal Orchestra in a brilliant concert, and was considered the prodigy of the age. Later he played the double bass in the Moscow Imperial Orchestra, until he again took up conducting...
Last week, in Manhattan, the New York Chamber Music Society gave a concert, played a new composition written for it-Portrait of a Lady by Composer Deems Taylor, scored for two violins, viola, cello, double bass, flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, French horn, piano. In the audience, reporting the evening's entertainment for The New York World, sat Critic Deems Taylor, listened while the likeness of his lovely lady took on shape and color in the bodiless air. Wrote he: "As one of Mr. Taylor's warmest admirers, we had looked forward with considerable interest to hearing...