Word: bassed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vague sense of the prodigious. Certainly you feel a tremendous earnestness. Perhaps it is an earnestness without talent. Perhaps there may be a deeper talent in the music. Two new figures are prominent in the New York musical world- Barbara Kemp and Michael Bonen. Both, soprano and bass, made their debuts in the recent premier of Mona Lisa at the Metropolitan Opera House. Successive appearances in other works have confirmed the first impressions of their artistry. Kemp is an actress of power and subtlety. Vocally she is a gifted interpreter, though with a tone that is by no means...
...University hand has announced that it will install a string section of eight violins, two cellos, and two bass violins. Candidates for these positions should report, with their instruments, for trials tonight at 7.15 o'clock in Sanders Theatre. Men retained at these trials will play at all local concerts, and will also accompany the band on its Spring trip...
Brahms' Symphony No. 4 (E minor) stood first on the program. Remarkably fine playing on the orchestra's part helped to give interest to an only fairly interesting first movement; it was the last movement that stood out as a wonderfully ingenious piece of ground-bass work, losing none of its beauty through its ingenuity; the amazingly fine work in this movement certainly confirms the statement that Brahms is the master of variation-form...
...high expectations of its hearers. With such economy of means, with never a descent to mere noise, with real beauty, Saint-Saens skips from hen's cackle to donkey's bray, from pianists; technical studies to carping critics' chatter; a masterful piece cl work, and eloquently played. From double-bass to flute the orchestra was superb, Mr. Bedetti, as usual, standing out as a supreme artist. May we not hear their fine sketches again this year...
...management has urged players of the bassoon, the oboe, or the bass viol, to report at the next rehearsal on Monday evening, November 6, at 7.30 o'clock in the Music Building, as the orchestra is in need of these instruments. Cornet players can arrange at this time for instruction in the French horn and other brass instruments from Mr. G. L. Patterson '00, a former player in the Pierian Orchestra...