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...Elia ’07, co-president of the HPS, confidently initiated the concert with Sergei Prokofiev’s “Suggestion Diabolique,” a piece more deserving of the title “Overstatement Diabolique.” Beginning with a low bass rumble, it quickly erupted into fiery, insistent repetitions of the titular motif. Prokofiev reemerged later on the program with Nora I. Bartosik’s ’08 spirited performance of his “Toccata,” opus 11. Unfortunately, the mediocrity of the piano itself detracted from...
...tune is fragmented, a series of seemingly random notes that somehow come together. The only discernible part of the melody is one five-note phrase that gives the piece its own personal flavor. The piece is kept together, not by the excellent rhythm section of Ahmed Abdul-Malik on bass and Shadow Wilson on drums, but the interplay between Monk and Coltrane, particularly during the first solo section...
This kind of growth attracts company, and Bass Pro's closest rival is Cabela's, which went public last year. Stock-market analysts are already nervous that the two companies are growing so fast that they will begin to clash directly, although, as Hagale says, it's a big country. The boat business doesn't have clear sailing either. Industry leader Brunswick is on a vertical-integration tear, a strategy that brought another firm, Outboard Marine, into bankruptcy. Genmar stepped in to feed on the remains, but Jacobs warns that a further shakeout looms in a market that is stagnant...
...Bass-fishing enthusiasts, however, aren't cyclical. Next year ESPN's Bassmaster is adding a women's league and an open lite series worth $11 million in prize money. ESPN is also increasing its coverage. And next December, probably in a California reservoir where the bigmouths grow to 20 lbs., some angler will reel in a lunker that will be worth a million FLW bucks, televised coast to coast. "I didn't create this need. I recognized it," says Jacobs, who has far bigger businesses in his portfolio that could occupy his time. But he's standing...
...There is another round of work to be done on the document but I think that will happen fairly quickly,” said Bass Professor of English and American Literature and Language Louis Menand, one member of the “Gang of Five.” “I would assume in a week or two there will be a document which will be more publicly circulated and people will start to weigh...