Word: basses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week came word from New Zealand that Maori musicality has at last produced a likely concert singer. Ini Te Wiata, 34, a logger with a resonant bass, has made such a hit with his countrymen (and with thousands of U.S. Marines in wartime New Zealand) that New Zealand's Labor government decided to do something for him. This week he will board ship for three years at London's Trinity College of Music, a $10,000 musical education at Government expense. New Zealanders, who suspect they have found a native Paul Robeson, do not intend...
...band of the roaring 20's grew rapidly through the days of white sailor caps and bow ties, but still lacked the bass drum, the Anderson medleys and the snap drills which gave it nation-wide fame and provoked high-school girls and college co-eds from as far as Texas to write touching letters to Bill Bingham pleading for a chance to be a Harvard drum majorette...
Pint-sized Sugar Chile, who sat at the piano with his back to the audience, swung his legs in a savage rhythm, played a rumbling bass. Sugar Chile still cannot reach an octave easily, but says "I can do it with a little jump...
Louisiana State University lost its president last week, but there were few if any cries of "Stick with us, Bill." Under Huey Long, L.S.U. had grown big and rich (Huey built it up to get even with Tulane for refusing him an honorary degree). Under William Bass Hatcher, appointed L.S.U. president in 1944 by Huey's political heirs, L.S.U. had lost some of its glories...
...something like a distracted billiard table on three legs. . . . Played well? You bet he did. When he first sit down, he peered to care mighty little about playing, and wished he hadn't come. He tweedle-eedled a little on the treble, and twoodle-oodled some on the bass. . . . All of a sudden, old Ruby changed his tune. . . . He lit into them keys like a thousand of brick. He give 'em no rest, day or night. He set every living joint in me agoing, and not being able to stand it no longer, I jumped spang into...