Word: basses
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...doctors' orchestra was organized in 1938, now numbers some 50 medical men, their relatives and a handful of professional musicians, including Conductor Maxim Waldo. There are no standard medical-musical tie-ups. Dentists play violins, cello, horn, bass. General practitioners play flutes and timpani, a dermatologist plays viola. The doctors prefer to remain anonymous to avoid publicity that might be contrary to medical ethics...
...splicing tapes) to achieve a spirited effect, while Perry Como (in a reissue) transforms God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen into a queasy dirge. The curtain on Victor's celebration is rung down by Christmas, Christmas, with chorus, chimes and strings uniting to provide a festive background while the bass voice of George Beverly Shea repeats "Chrishmush, Chrishmush...
...Smithsonian Institution by White House aides, who secretly installed it at Gettysburg. Upstairs are six bedrooms and a studio in which Ike can paint as he looks out over the Blue Ridge. His other hobbies are served by a new putting green and a pond freshly stocked with bass...
This opinion indicates that the Historical Division is still doing its work on an impartial bass and to the best of its ability. The delays in publication are reasonable ones, not the result of Democratic stalling. Unless more substantial evidence comes forth, it would be well to assume that both Democrats and Republicans want records of U.S. foreign relations released as quickly and accurately as possible for the benefit of the country as a whole...
...week, some 30,000 Viennese crowded against police lines around the opera, listening to Fidelia through loudspeakers. Inside, the work's gloomy sets and stern plot seemed hardly a match for the festive occasion, but the audience cheered the triumphant aptness of its subject: freedom. Of the stars, Bass-Baritone Paul Schoeffler as Don Pizarro was a standout; Soprano Martha Moedl as Leonore was more effective dramatically than vocally. The orchestra, conducted by Opera Director Karl Böhm, won six salvos of applause after it played the famous Leonore Overture...