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From the majesty of the "Dies irae" the music changed to the subdued strains of the "Tuba mirum," sung by the professional soloists Jeanette Scovotti, June Genovese, Walter Carringer, and George Hoffman. The chorus had some trouble going into this gentle mood at the beginning of the "Lacrimosa", but was highly inspiring when it reached the "Amen" at the end of the movement. While they did not retain this peak of grandeur on the "Domine Jesu" or in the fugue of the "Hostias," they recaptured it during the end of the "Hostias." The base was exceptionally superb during this part...
...lovers in Cleveland behave like sports fans elsewhere. They have airport rallies when the orchestra comes home from tour. They chant, "We're the best! We're the best!" and carry placards reading "Bravo!" They have a Meet Your Orchestra radio program that features chummy interviews with tuba players and treats double-bassists like second basemen. They have been known to stop musicians on the street to plead for autographs and crowd the stage door after concerts to shake the hands of fiddlers. And in store windows all over town, they mount pictures of their hero, the glowering...
...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...