Word: bassos
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...love" from the game of tennis. No more is that soft-sounding epithet to be applied to one's opponent or oneself amid the thuds of racquet against ball. One-in, two-out, three-all replace the dulcet tones of fifteen-love, and love-thirty, and the dignified basso of dence...
...years, is one more indication that conditions at Cambridge are slowly swinging back to the normal plane of before the war days. It has been long since the curtain of the Pudding stage has creaked up on a much rouged and closely shaved chorus of pseudo-girls, and since basso-voiced heroines and sotto-voiced prompters have held an undergraduate audience thrilled by the unrehearsed actions of a Pudding cast. "Crowns and Clowns" will be a welcome visitor to the University...
...concert in Sanders Theatre tonight given by the Russian Cathedral Choir of the Church of Saint Nicholas, New York, offers an opportunity to hear a really unique performance. In the first place, the range of the Russian male voice is far beyond that of the occidental basso, in some cases going a whole octave lower. The singing is always unaccompanied, which necessitates absolute control of time and pitch. Then, although all of the old Slavonic Church music has been preserved, in the last century there has been a great revival in its composition, and musicians like Tschaikowsky and Rachmaninoff have...
...Andover Gymnasium Saturday night by the score of 6 to 5. As only four members of the University team took the trip, two were obliged to wrestle twice. The summary follows: 125-pound--Kieger (A), threw L. H. Bevier '17, time 5 minutes, 40 seconds; 135-pound--Basso (A), threw A. P. Little '17, time 1 minute, 20 seconds; 145-pound--C. C. Loomis 1G., threw Dyer (A), time 3 minutes, 7 seconds; 158-pound--Talmage (A), threw C. C. Loomis 1G., time 2 minutes, 10 seconds; 165-pound--A. K. Kelley 1L., threw Russell (A), time 2 minutes...
...clock. Five songs of Brahms and a dozen old Scottish melodies will be presented by Mr. Whiting, at the pianoforte, assisted by the University Quartet of New York,--Mrs. Charles Rabold, soprano; Mrs. Anna Taylor Jones, contralto; Mr. William-Wheeler, tenor; and Mr. Edmund A. Jahn, basso. There will be no admission charge, but the concert will be open only to officers and students of the University...