Word: basses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Kussevitsky broke into music with the bass viol, making both himself and the instrument famous. He played in the Imperial Opera and became a professor at the Moscow Conservatory, his alma mater. Before the War he cruised on the Volga with his orchestra, giving symphony concerts in places unknown to that art. Since the War he has been engaged in Western Europe...
...nothing more than a large violin, played in the customary position for the violin. Its tone is very distinctive, deeper, mellower and moodier than that of the violin. Its lack lies in variety. It does not have the alternate darkness and brightness of the violin or the alternate bass strength and majesty and tenor fervor of the violoncello, but preserves a characteristic romantic melancholy throughout...
...instrument, one well fitted to satisfy the highest artistic demands of music. The Society has a band of one hundred expert players, who render in grandiose style arrangements of the compositions of the great composers. Listeners at the Berlin concert commented admiringly on the great, noble tone of the bass mandolins-almost organlike in richness-which moved in stately measures beneath the delicate, tintillating lacework of the smaller instruments...
...story appears in the dramatic section of the Sunday paper that Melinda Mulch, star of the Stupidities of 1923, keeps a canvasback duck in her dressing-room. One day the duck snaps at the leading man; another, it escapes and is discovered in the bass viol; finally it lays an egg and half the company pay bets to the other half. These diverting incidents the public reads intently. The interest thus aroused lures them by tens and dozens to part with $4.40 to see this bizarre Melinda Mulch-the leading lady with a leaning toward canvasback ducks. As a matter...
...close of the concert the band will furnish music for dancing which will follow. An addition of eight violins, four cellos, and two bass viols will be made so that the band will, as a dance orchestra, consist of more than 50 pieces...