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...your March 16 issue, you credit Saul Bass with designing the new color-drop Kleenex package. Taint so. I designed that box, and it took lots of doing...
Schenck cannot be blamed for the worst performed number, Bach's Sixth Brandenburg Concerto; it was led by Bentley Layton, next year's conductor of the orchestra. Bach scored the Sixth Brandenburg for a chamber orchestra: two violas, two gambas (played by 'celli), a solo cello, continuo and bass. In the first movement, all the instruments except continuo and bass supposedly take turns as soloists, and thereafter only the 'cello and violas play the solo lines. This distribution threw the heaviest burden on the performers in the ensemble least able to hear it. The 'cellos and violas had to struggle...
...mother worked as a maid in the mansion of ex-Governor Ichabod Goodwin. Both of his parents were members of the Salvation Army, and young Wes tooted the cornet while his father pounded the big bass drum...
...flying start in early season games the varsity baseball team will open its Eastern Intercollegiate Bass-ball League schedule against Penn in Philadelphia this afternoon. Tomorrow the Crimson will travel to Ithaca to meet Cornell...
...Composer Hector Berlioz himself acknowledged in another passage of his Evenings with the Orchestra, the all-powerful tenor is anything but a hardy breed. Tenor voices are comparatively rare: in one study, made in Germany, more than three-quarters of the male voices were naturally baritone or bass. And the tenor must sing much of the time toward the top of his range and volume, subjecting his vocal cords to cruel and unusual punishment. Small wonder that tenors are almost always in short supply and often have king-sized egos ("Good," "Marvelous," Caruso used to write below his name...