Word: basses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...following instruments will be accepted for the Mandolin Club: mandolin, mandola, mando-cello, guitar, violin, viola, cello, and bass viol. For the Banjo Club the tenor banjo, straight banjo, piano, traps, saxophone, cornet, flute and the piccolo are eligible...
...system of nominating and voting known as Proportional Representation by the single transferable vote, or, for short, in this country, P. R." continued Professor Johnson who is a member of the Proportional Representative League in connection with such men as Ex-governor Robert P. Bass '96 of Massachusetts, Arthur N. Holcombe '06, professor of government in the University, and Senator George Wharton Pepper of Massachusetts...
...violin the audience were silent, as 15,000 disembodied spirits straining for the trumpet call of the angels. They heard the famed Wanamaker instruments, Stradivari, Guarnarius, Quadagnini, Montaguana, Gofriller . . . played in massed unison by the great string quartets of the U. S. - Flonzaley, Pro Arte, Lenox, Vertchamp, with four bass viols in accompaniment. Under Mr. Rich's direction the musicians poured harmonies and melodies from Purcell's Suite in C Major. Into the rare acoustic treasuries of the huge auditorium later sounded the Mozart D Major, Saint-Saens's Le Deluge, Debussy's G Minor, Veracini...
...presents a successful, gorgeous drama-spectacle. Only Satanic music could express the diabolism of the plot. The score provided, far from being profound as sin, is puerile as the theft of jam. It dares the singers to vault along treacherous arpeggios, skip over unsound scales, probe the depths of bass tones, just to prove that it can be done. It is done, and surprisingly well, too. Claudia Muzio, one of the world's great dramatic sopranos, almost made the difficult Ginevra role take on the semblance of life and opera. Not less effective was Luigi Montesanto who boasted loudly...
...Keyserling's new book,* which, unfortunately, is about one-tenth as readable. In it, the state of wedlock has been treated as a musical theme is treated to turn it into a symphony. Count Keyserling is the conductor. To the woodwinds of psychoanalysis, the percussives of aristocracy, the bass viols of biology, the brass of anthropology, the muted strings of art and mysticism, are assigned various parts. The players include-besides several German savants little known in the U. S. -Havelock Ellis, Rabindranath Tagore, Leo Frobenius, Jakob Wassermann, C. G. Jung, Alfred Adler, Beatrice Hinkle. Some of the titles...