Word: basses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mysteriously appearing from beneath the stage, the jazz orchestra leader stands on his unseen pedestal, raises his baton. To the elfing ripple of piano, the squeal of clarinet, the deep-throated protest of the bass saxaphone, and the triumphant laughter of the trumpet, the great gray house curtain rises slowly into the flies. Vanishing, it reveals the show curtain, pride of the company, whether of an appetite for clean fun in the academic halls there depicted, and a justifiable pride in this curtain which creates in advance the collegiate atmosphere for what Grantland Rice though "the only really convincing college...
This situation the Chicago Tribune snatched at last week and brandished as a res horrenda, while it blared through the bass horn of its editorial columns: "It is a sign of mental infirmity that the pacifist opponents of the R. O. T. C. never try to relate their rhetoric to plausibility or probability, to conditions, facts or prospects or to anything resembling cause and effect. They have rancor and timidity, physical flinching, addled reasoning, suspicion, pompous illusions and gross fears, but never anything that can be laid alongside a fact or will stand a shot of common sense. Yet this...
...Linda di Chamounix (Toti Dal Monte and Tito Schipa), Loreley (Claudia Muzio). New singers are Eleanor Elderkin, Olga Kargau, Leone Kruse, Lucille Meusel, Delia Samoiloff, sopranos; Elinor Mario, contralto; John Sample, tenor; Eugenic Sandrini, Heinrich Schlusnus, Robert Ringling (son of the late circus proprietor Charles Ringling), baritones; Chase Baromeo, bass. Maria Yurieva and Vechslav Swoboda will head the new ballet. Giorgio Polacco is again musical director, Roberto Moranzoni, Henry G. Weber and Polacco the conductors, Herbert Johnson manager. Good news to President Samuel Insull and to the 2,400 citizens who guarantee $550,000 a year was the announcement that...
...with the excitement of making music again. Fleetly, like a master violinist he put it through the most intricate paces. Solemnly, majestically he let it announce itself father and ruler of them all. Ladies, victims long since to the charms of Conductor Koussevitzky, sighed new sighs for his double bass...
News that the big bass drum of Purdue will not boom in the Stadium this afternoon brings disappointment to the potential spectators, but relief to the Harvard Band. For according to rumor, the musicians who so unfortunately stayed at home not only possess the most gigantic drum in the history of Lafayette, Indiana, but are a group of men whose manoeuvres on the gridiron are equalled only by the warriors once in moleskin and silk. There was a time, just after the war, when the Harvard Band had a monopoly on football music, or at least on intermission parades...