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...most satisfying finale on records is in the London set; the vocal parts by Vienna's Friends of Music chorus are noble and distinct, and Basso Ludwig Weber's commanding entrance is something to hear. Conductor Erich Kleiber leads the Vienna Philharmonic in a fine performance, and the recorded sound is sumptuous...
...when heard in the open and at a reasonable distance, is not at all harmful. But the intense "sound fields,"* which extend a short way behind the tail pipe, can have alarming and possibly harmful effects on people who enter them. When afterburners come into general use, adding their basso profundo to the scream of the jets, the fields of sound may become serious menaces...
Rachmaninoff: The Miserly Knight, Act II (Cesare Siepi, the Little Orchestra Society, Thomas Scherman conducting; Columbia). The whole act of this richly Russian score is devoted to the miser's gold-gloating monologue in his cellar. Basso Siepi sings it resonantly in poorly articulated English. The orchestra sounds full-bodied, well-schooled...
...Basso Nicola Rossi-Lemeni had the biggest personal triumph, mesmerized the audience with his singing and acting as the Swiss hero: when he fired his crossbow and the apple on his son's head split with a stage-trick snap, there was a loud and relieved cheer...
...Progress (which later became Finnegans Wake), transition was also among the first in English with the work of Franz Kafka and Andre Gide (see RELIGION). To such U.S. literary expatriates of the '205 as Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, Hart Crane, Erskine Caldwell, Kay Boyle, Katherine Anne Porter, Hamilton Basso and William Carlos Williams-all glad to work in transition's experimental laboratory-Editor Jolas never paid more than $1 a page ("Anybody who would write and not want payment was always a better friend of transition...