Word: basses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only incident resembling a demonstration during Ford's two-week stay was a one-man protest vigil staged by Ruffin Harris of Carbondale, Colo. He stood in front of Millionaire Richard Bass's palace where Ford was staying. Harris held a live wolf on a leash to protest Ford's Christmas gift of a wolfskin coat to his wife...
...many 20th century composers think of the harpsichord as a piano or as a percussion instrument. They expect you to bang very hard on it," says Kipnis. The impressionism of Debussy or Delius, which calls for a dreamy, sustained tone, simply will not work on a harpsichord. A stride bass can sound downright laughable. The technique of the harpsichordist exists entirely in the fingers, not partly in the arms as with a pianist. The music must be written so that it lies, as Kipnis puts it, "all under the fingers." The special gift of the harpsichord is its startling ability...
...Person's Guide" brilliantly serves its original function--that of musical back-up for a children's documentary on the instruments of the orchestra--and is even a catchy enough piece in its own right. But the narration, rarely leaving the level of "And now, here's the Big Bass Drum," was clearly written for children and is a pointless text for this audience. Even Professor John Finley's gracious reading couldn't help but bog down the action and make us feel that it was getting past our bedtime...
Women had musical ability but seldom on the right instruments; parents liked girls to play the piano, not phallic bass guitars. Rock was blues electrified, rough music from back of the barn. English groups who adopted the sound in the late '60s did little to improve the image with guitar smashing and satanic prancing. When 16-year-old Singer Maria Muldaur proudly brought home her first recording contract, her mother immediately tore it up. Says Maria: "She was afraid it would lead me into white slavery...
...women, many children. On stage, Betts's tour is called "An American Music Show." And it is: on the left side stands the chorus, mostly a black woman who haunts the singing with an urban, Merry-Clayton-in-Gimme-Shelter howl. In the background bobs an electric-haired bass player. On the right stands Vassar Clements, ramrod straight, hair furled and molded back, holding up the fiddle military-high. And in the center Betts, with his plain calico voice and his wondrous guitar, pulling the American Music Show together...