Word: basses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York, N. Y., Frank Bryant Cutts '28, of Providence, R. L. Langdon Dearborn '28, of Havana, Cuba, Richard Thomas Dunn '28, of Bridgeport, Conn., Thomas Hopkinson Eliot '28, of Cambridge, Allen Orrick Fordyce '28, of St. Louis, Mo., George Tappan Francis Jr. '28, of Boston, Edward Bass Hall '28, of Cambridge, Arthur Andrews Holbrook '28, of Milwaukee, Wis., Thorndike Dudley Howe Jr. '28, of Boston, Robert Ingle Hunneman '28, of Brookline, William Barksdale Jones '28, of Vaughan, Miss., David Arms Lomasney '28, of Toledo, Ohio, William Ashley Magie '28, of Chicago, Ill., Albert Henry O'Neil '28, of Jamaica Plain...
...Opera House, Manhattan, fell last week on the first performance of the season of Richard Wagner's Gotterdammerung, stupendous finale of the Nibelungen Ring, fifth of the Wagner matinees. Nanny Larsen-Todsen, recovering from an illness, sang the difficlut music of Brünnhilde, creditably. Michael Bohmen, big bass also billed as "indisposed," was sinister, impressive, magnificent; Friedrich Schorr, superb as Gunther; Rudolph Laubenthal, bountifully bewigged, an uninspired Siegfried. Critics reveled in the music, lauded its interpreter, Conductor Artur Bodansky; bewailed the fact that carelessness and a disregard for Wagner's instructions were allowed to spoil many...
From the very opening when the sopranoes impose their superb planissimo upon the undertone of the bass viols, through the great organ chords of the fifth chorus and the magnificent climaxes of the sixth to the stately Maestroso of the final chorus which dies away in the beautiful counterpoint between the sopranos and tenors, Brahms shows himself as one of the very greatest of molodic composers...
...peoples; leader of concerts in London, Madrid, Barcelona and Warsaw, who has crossed the seas to convey to prosaic America some of his own insight into the arts in the universal language of music." Conductor Koussevitzky speaks little English, could think of no fitting reply, instead lifted his bass violin, played eloquently Handel's Largo, the Andante from his own concerts, made his U. S. debut as a soloist...
Feodor Chaliapin, large Russian bass, soon to tour Europe and the U. S. with his own opera company in the Barber of Seville, has a melody of his own running through his head. Last week in Detroit he hummed a few measures of it to pressmen; said that he would develop it into an operetta, take it on tour, perhaps, after the Barber...