Word: basses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Symphony (70 semipros and amateurs) opened with Met Baritone Leonard Warren as guest. The Cedar Rapids Symphony (69 amateurs and 17 members of the musicians' union) had a full house with, said Conductor Henry Denecke, "no one out with the flu and the bases loaded," i.e., all five bass chairs occupied, no simple matter in Cedar Rapids...
...first piece on the program, Bach's Suite No. 3 in D, showed immediately the tremendous improvement in the violins, whose tone is beginning to sound professional. The 'cellos and basses sounded weak, as they did later in the concerto, and they failed to provide the strength and insistence so essential to the crucial bass line in both Bach and Brahms. It was also disappointing to have the "French overture" rhythms played incorrectly, losing all their force...
...members of the University Band are feverishly racing against the clock this morning in an effort to retrieve the world's largest playable bass drum in time for tonight's Dartmouth Concert...
This was not what happened four years ago when the "opera" had its first stage performance in Mannheim. Then the audience reacted wildly almost as soon as the curtain rose. Emitting open vowel sounds, the tenor sang: "AUAUAUAUAU a U A U." Outdoing him, the bass boomed, "U UE U UE," only to be interrupted by a chorus which periodically burst out with "Agatta-Gatta-Gatta." These sounds so unnerved the Mannheim audience that it responded with heartfelt "pfuis!", and an incensed reviewer described it as possibly "the worst opera ever written." By contrast, some Berlin spectators last week...
...Bass: Da otvechai pochemu Tenor: Weather is O.K. Bass: Akh da slushaite slushaite Tenor: Weather O.K. weather is fine...