Word: tubas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been interpolated into the Verdi Requiem." The bells tolling for the dead in one segment of the Mass were echoed by Owen's line, "What passing-bells for these who die like cattle," while the distant menace of battle was evoked by the orchestra's strident tuba fanfare. A Latin lament sung by U.S. Soprano Ella Lee, was the refrain for the verses...
...Wheeling airport, Sonny Day's six-piece combo-the same outfit that had blatted out High Hopes and Happy Days for Kennedy in 1960-struggled manfully on electric accordion, tuba, cornet, saxophone, trumpet and trombone to render Hail to the Chief. Rain was falling steadily when Kennedy arrived at the high school football stadium for the political rally. But 7,500 persons were nonetheless on hand to hear and cheer him. Coatless, Kennedy strode through the rain to the covered platform. "When I come back to West Virginia," he declared. "I feel as if I was coming home...
...harmonics of the instrument--hence the irregularities in intonation," it was painfully obvious to all what had happened when the identical passage was correctly played at the end of the piece. Those who realized at the time that Britten had not intended the opening notes to sound like a tuba solo suffered a moment of agonized embarrassment for the performer. Indeed, such a faux pas might easily have flustered the most experienced of artists, but Mr. Pottle recovered quickly and played quite well from there on. The orchestra was adequate, and Mr. Walker again sang superbly. Senturia generally kept...
...auditorium is tiny, cluttered and creaky with age. Spectators in the front row run the danger of being skewered by the conductor's baton, and a singer who wants to be heard has to shout down the throat of the tuba. But despite such drawbacks, the audience at Manhattan's Xavier Theater last week saw and heard as fine a revival of Gian-Carlo Menotti's stark Greenwich Village drama. The Saint of Bleecker Street, as the opera is likely to receive. What made the production even more surprising was that not one of the professional performers...
...bandstand may support a ricky-tick piano, a musical saw, or a tuba-but it is the multiple banjos that reign. The crowds, like the proprietors, are mainly collegiate, and they sing along enthusiastically while the banjos plunk out the immemorially cubic rhythms of Hold That Tiger! or Sweet Georgia Brown. The whole wholesome atmosphere is enough to make the massed inhabitants of the beatnik colony at Sausalito slouch toward the sea like lemmings...