Word: basses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Holiday for Harp (The Daphne Hellman Quartet; Harmony LP). Harpist Hellman produces some stunning sonorities with an instrument bred to less exotic climes. With the sound sometimes brittle and percussive, sometimes cobwebby soft, Harpist Hellman and her helpers (bass, guitar and drums) swing with sinuous brilliance through Summertime, Swingin' Shepherd Blues, Down the Road a Piece, giving each a fine crystalline gloss...
...village (pop. 1,200) of Algonac, Mich, on the St. Clair River. Algonac was a tough sailors' town situated in the midst of busy Great Lakes maritime commerce. There were a few small hotels, a general store, plenty of canvasback and redhead ducks, walleyed pike, yellow perch, black bass and an occasional sturgeon-and lots of sitting...
...hours, seven sopranos, two mezzos, four baritones, a tenor and a bass worked their way through arias from Mozart, Massenet, Verdi, Wagner. Then, while audience and contestants stepped up to Sherry's Bar for a breather, Bing retired to his office with the other judges, half an hour later came out with the names of the winners. The Met decided to award two contracts-to Tacoma's 30-year-old Baritone Roald Reitan and 20-year-old, Toronto-born Soprano Teresa Stratas. Baritone Reitan, who was turned down by a Met scout four years ago when he auditioned...
Munch cut, among other numbers, the recitatives describing the suicide of Judas and the love of Mary Magdalene, the lovely bass aria "Mache dich, mein Herze, rein," and the masterful tenor aria "Geduld, geduld...
...Schubert: Symphony #2; Vitali; Chaconne for violin and figured bass; Verdi: Requiem; Bartok: Quartet #1; Borodin: Symphony #2; Boccherini: Trio...