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...battle progresses, the ship suffers her first fatality. At a dimly lit spot on the far rail of the ship, the muffled voice of a chaplain is heard, a bass drum rolls, and a splash sounds over the starboard side. Later on, men are heard practicing their bathroom baritones ("Yo-ho, Pagliacci, I got a waterproof watchee") when a torpedo strikes. There is a rending of metal, an explosion, and finally the sucking sound of water rushing through a hole. The singing stops. All four men died in the shower room...
...lively evidence of the creativity of the National Film Board of Canada, the government-sponsored agency that has won hundreds of international awards for adventurous shorts and cartoons on such diverse subjects as jazz, religion, tourism, sibling rivalry, Eskimo art, and even the life cycle of the small-mouthed bass. This film, N.F.B.'s first full-length feature to be distributed commercially across the U.S., is a winsome if wobbly essay on the plight of two affluent delinquents swimming against the stream of life in Toronto...
When he got to Eramus Hall High School, he turned into a strong, deep bass, and sang informally here and there--at a hospital or an illegal after-hours club. "After graduation four years ago, I had some scattered chorus and bit parts in summer stock and off-Broadway until I got a big role in Jerico-Jim. My voice range had moved up a bit, and I was a baritone there. It's still not stabilized. Right now my usable range goes from a bass' low E to a tenor's high C. Who knows?--maybe I'll wind...
SCHUBERT: QUINTET IN A MAJOR (Vox). Schubert wrote "The Trout" in the lightest of holiday moods, and the double bass has to tiptoe to keep the music from being heavy-footed. Georg Hortnagel handles the part with the required grace, playing with the violinist, violist and cellist of the Hungarian String Quartet. A percussive piano could also shatter Schubert's mood, but Louis Kentner's playing is gossamer. The result is a lithe, blithe dream of summer...
...profusion of soloists. Those voices with brilliant timbres were well covered, particularly in the soft passages. The tenors as a section were both strong and Iyric, a fact that must give their conductor great satisfaction, since most directors have to settle for one extreme or the other. The bass section, however, was not up to snuff. Two or three key men seemed to be missing. In the liturgical music, the all-important low basses were just not strong enough in the full sections, and demonstrated an alarming lack of sensitivity by being too loud in the soft passages...