Word: basses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...late Huey Pierce Long. (The new president he installed, Dr. James Monroe Smith, is now in the sixth year of an 8-to-24 year sentence to the state penitentiary for embezzlement.) Last week another L.S.U. controversy raged over the issue of campus kissing. Tall, leonine President William Bass ("William the Conqueror") Hatcher had frowned on good-night kisses. Pretty Sophomore Gloria Jeanne Heller, 18, issued a rebellious manifesto. "We are meant and taught to be robots," she declared. She was promptly expelled. Fellow students vainly clamored protest. Remarked an alumnus, mindful also of L.S.U.'s slipping cultural standards...
...Marlowe Morris (piano), Sidney Catlett and Joe Jones (drums), Lester Young and Illinois Jacquet (tenor sax), Red Callender and John Simmons (bass), Harry Edison (trumpet), Barney Kessel (guitar...
...manual was worked out by U.S.O. Music Division Chief Raymond Kendall, with Houghton Mifflin's William Spaulding. It is to be used in connection with nine recordings of popular barbershop numbers. At first the record plays a selection emphasizing the lead, tenor and bass successively, to give the G.I. student the idea. Then it supplies the missing parts, so that the G.I. can learn in turn to sing lead, tenor and bass. By the time he is through the cycle, the G.I. has become an all-round barbershop expert, able to sound off, at the clearing of a throat...
...broadcast last Sunday on the regular Toscanini-conducted NBC Symphony program, with a second installment to follow this week. For his Fidelia the maestro drew heavily on the Metropolitan's roster, allotted principal roles to Sopranos Rose Bampton and Eleanor Steber, Tenor Jan Peerce, Baritone Herbert Janssen, Bass Nicola Moscona. At the end of the broadcast, a distinguished audience-including half of Manhattan's top-rank musical celebrities, who had frantically begged their invitations-caught its breath, hoped fervently that the maestro might somehow make a more lasting peace with opera in the U.S. The Toscanini Fidelia would...
...Newcomers. Last week both claque and audience found several things worth applauding. One was the singing of the great Italian bass, Ezio Pinza; as Mephistopheles and as Don Giovanni, he proved again that he is the Metropolitan's brightest star. Another was the expert conducting of Hungarian-born George Szell, who, since the departure of Sir Thomas Beecham and Bruno Walter, is the Met's finest maestro. During the opening week six young U.S. singers made their first Metropolitan appearances. Of them, the likeliest future headliners seemed...