Word: bassos
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...fact changed. It was true that Russia's new masters had only reviled the old tyrant in order to perpetuate his tyranny. But there was a new face in Russia, and a new song on its lips. The old song of Stalin's was a menacing basso proclaiming a defiant people encircled by a hostile world; now a mellower baritone pleasingly rendered, "Why Can't We Be Friends...
...Montemezzi's The Love of the Three Kings, and likes to recall that she literally brought down the house; during her final exit, part of the ceiling collapsed. All that remained was for her to be discovered by a big-time impresario. She was. Luben Vichey, Met basso lately turned concert manager, took her under his wing. "You will have a career, Beverly," he says sternly and prophetically. "No marriage for you. No children. Career...
...Hastings family to another controversial figure, the Professor of Hebrew and Other Oriental Languages and for a while acting Praeses, Eliphalet Pearson. "I wonder," mused Dr. Holmes from his breakfast table, "if there are any such beings nowadays as the great Eliphalet, with his large features and his conversational basso profundo, seemed to me. His very name had something elephantine about it, and it seemed to me that the house shook from cellar to garret at his footfall...
Fernando Corena, as Don Pasquale, entered wearing a vivid green apron, for the Met staging makes him a passionate amateur gardener; he sang in a deeply resonant style that may ultimately restore their proper musical qualities to comic basso roles, long lost in mere boom-and-rasp renditions. Tenor Cesare Valletti sang with the sweetness and eloquence of a low-pressure Caruso. Pretty Coloratura Peters was expertly coquettish. Using her voice almost as if it were a tangible object, she tossed a trill to port, another to starboard, a third dead amidships of the great opera house...
...View from Pompey's Head (20th Century-Fox), as Hamilton Basso saw it in his bestselling novel of 1954, was a rather unnerving spectacle in which the contemporary South looked like a magnolia tundra strewn with discarded Coke bottles. In the picture version, the view is strictly from the cash register, and the focus scrooches down pretty quickly on the kind of hot grits that generally go with the greens Hollywood loves best...