Word: basses
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...doubtful if so prodigious an undertaking could have succeeded without an actor of Ian Richardson's scope and power. His voice is like the trumpet of the Lord at the Second Coming. He can insinuate like a violin, wheedle like a clarinet and thunder anathemas like a great bass drum. And alongside that, Richardson maintains a physical counterpoint of impish comic invention, which is an equally essential element of the Shavian rhetoric...
Richard Hell's Blank Generation, delivered over a throbbing four-note bass ostinato, is already a punk classic...
...bars, a thick curtain of light, produced by in tense lights rimming the stage, dissolved to reveal Keith Emerson, 32, Greg Lake, 29 and Carl Palmer, 27, hard at work on the center. There was Keith darting from Hammond organ to Moog synthesizer, and Greg picking away at his bass-guitar. Between them sat Carl, confined along with his drums, snares, gongs and tubular bells in a percussion cockpit that resembled nothing so much as a mod four-poster converted into a padded cell for the phantom of the opera. The music built relentlessly, awesomely powered by 72,000 watts...
Bellow's Henderson is a man of vast comic incongruity. Kirchner's hero (even though splendidly performed by Bass Ara Berberian) is a one-dimensional klutz. The pity is that there is so much good music in Lily - the Bartokian orchestral evocation of the jungle, the sweet, pristine chants of the natives, the often amusing coloratura chirping of Lily (Susan Belling...
...well sit in the second row, for the standard collegiate hash will reach every corner of the theater, arousing smiles on an audience full of old-and new-timers with a weakness for the snaphappy sound. The Kroks rendition of "Blue Moon", along with its tortuous and ticklish bass line, was worth the price of admission, so if they program it this year, they'd do well to keep the concert short, and release you in time to see Casablanca, which should be leaving the Brattle very soon...