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...have never in my entire life--and my life up till this point has been pretty good--had so many wonderful culinary experiences in such a short period of time," Adrian D. Ashkenazy '96, a Krokodiloes bass, says...
...energy around her to her advantage; she draws every eye to her, both on stage and off, with admirable seconda donna tactics. The conviction and simplicity of Josh Benaim's cameo "coat aria" in the fourth act place the aria closer to Puccini's original intentions than many a bass who overplay the fact that they are singing to a coat and end up looking, well, goofy...
McBride's roots are in soul music. At eight he taught himself bass, playing along to Stax and James Brown records at home in Philadelphia. Arriving at Juilliard at 17, he studied jazz and classical bass. But his education really began a year later, he says, when he dropped out to try to make it on his own. Moving into a small Harlem apartment with four roommates ("There was always somebody jamming in the living room," he recalls), McBride spent his days practicing his instrument. Nights he hung out in Greenwich Village clubs studying the techniques of his idols, bassists...
Throughout four Scarlatti keyboard sonatas (in D Major, G Major, E minor and A Major), Fisk's concentration on the fingerboard and frets never lapsed. He did take some liberty with the first two sonatas by allowing for dynamic contrasts and a ringing bass line that would be impossible on a harpsichord. Fisk might have expanded these liberties to include a thinning of the sonatas' ornamentation, whose technical difficulty sometimes weighed down his otherwise ebullient accounts. In the E minor sonata, Fisk allowed himself to be tossed easily between its simple lines with more delicacy than one would expect from...
Together with the thundering drums of Brett Reed and the impressive throbbing bass lines of Matt Freeman, Armstrong and Fredriksen kicked off their set with their newest single, "Roots Radical." The audience, already more than warmed up by the opening sets of Waterdog and Daltonic, went nuts. The floor of Avalon instantly became a massive pit of flailing kids moshing their brains...