Word: basses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...music. "An F-sharp doesn't have to be considered in the mind; it scores a direct hit," Leonard Bernstein points out. "Think of King Lear in an opera. He'd be raging as no Lear could ever rage in a spoken play: in a great bass voice, with a frantic high G-flat, a howling chorus offstage, and 90 players helping...
...philosophy-that turntables had to be separated from speakers and amplifiers so that the tone arm was not shaken from its groove, that amplifiers had to be placed far away from everything because they generated so much heat, and that speakers had to be behemoths to produce a faithful bass. Recent technological developments have changed all that. Good record changers have so many springs and shock absorbers that they are virtually unaffected by vibration. By using transistors instead of tubes, manufacturers can cram the same amount of equipment into half the space and eliminate the heat problem altogether. Lastly...
...couple of rock tunes to order, and then, reading success in a lot of tea leaves, invited a movie photographer to film a documentary of their "inevitable" jumping to fame. The What Four: Lillian Pogan on lead guitar, Elizabeth Burke on drums, China Girard on rhythm guitar, and on bass guitar, Diane Hartford, wife of A. & P. Heir Huntington Hartford, who invited the group down to the family's New Jersey estate, Melody Farm, to rehearse for their Soft Day's Night...
ANDREW HILL: POINT OF DEPARTURE (Blue Note). This is a highly individualistic combo with a strong visceral sound. The standout is the late saxophonist Eric Dolphy, who easily steals the record from Hill with searingly emotional solos, and stimulates Joe Henderson (tenor sax), Kenny Dorham (trumpet) and Richard Davis (bass). Hill believes in arrangements that give free rein to his musicians' personalities and their ways of extemporizing; on this disk he has achieved a memorable ensemble...
...Zoltan Kodaly, which the chorus performed earlier this summer at the Dartmouth College Congregation of the Arts. The chorus will be assisted in the Te Deum by members of the Cantabrigia Orchestra, conducted by Joel Lazar. Florence McBride, soprano, Henry Gibbons, tenor; Colleen Ryan Schwartzgebel, alto; and Peter Solomon, bass, will solo...