Word: basses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thumb - looks like a pipsqueak. Yet its sweet warblings, wistful twitters and charming coos work such a Pied Piper spell over modern audiences that the recorder has become the fastest-rising instrument in the U.S. With more amateurs taking up the recorder than the violin, cello, viola and bass combined, the number of players has climbed from 100,000 in 1955 to 750,000 last year. The American Recorder Society now boasts 53 chapters in the U.S. and Canada, as well as a learned quarterly, The American Recorder. Fo cal point for much of the interest is on campus, where...
...HOLIDAY (NBC, 5:30-6 p.m.). Voyages to happy hunting and fishing grounds with tips on how to come home with the big ones. This trip is to Alaska and Argentina for big game and trout, and to reservoirs in Massachusetts and New Hampshire for fresh-water bass. Premiere...
NOTHING THRILLED US HALF AS MUCH (Epic). This reissue of The Best of Fred Astaire is decidedly a collector's item: original recordings of such favorites as Cheek to Cheek, Slap That Bass and Let's Call the Whole Thing Off, sung and danced (the tapping is almost as expressive as the lyrics) by the master...
...Larson has a good feel for the consonances of large chords and his playing is always solid, though sometimes a little too standard. Steve Brown plays flexibly on sax and flute, and some of his choruses, especially the uninterrupted fast passages, are quite imaginative. Bruce Vermeulen plays solid jazz bass, and Hayden Duggan on drums provides the most driving, emotional playing of the group...
...often the care, the audience's favorite was Zerlina, sung as soubrettishly as bearable by Spring Fairbank. Although her two charming scenes with Masetto were flawless, perhaps the most stylish singing came in the "La ci darem" duet with Giovanni. Bass Tom Weber, while rather dry-sounding and somewhat strained, made the most of Leporello's varied moods and tasks, though perhaps not with the same hilarity of his Don Alfonso (of last year's Cori). Less satisfactory were the nasal tenor of August Paglialunga, a peculiarly huge Don Ottavio, and the half-sung Masetto of Don Meaders...