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Loussier figured he could "produce jazz harmonies without disturbing the harmonies of Bach." He rounded up a bass fiddle and some drums, and started noodling his way through the Bach fugues and preludes, "looking for passages that could be swung." He found them-or made them-and the result was an album titled Play Bach (Decca Disques). It sold briskly. Encouraged, Loussier recorded Play Bach, No. 2 and most recently turned to the Italian Concerto, Chromatic Fantasy and Two-Part Inventions as the inspiration for Play Bach...
With Pete Seeger gone, Lee Hays is certainly the outstanding individual artist in the group. Despite a bad cold Saturday, his resonant bass voice and his physical immensity gave both color and humor to the performance. Serving as emcee, he kept the concert moving with droll introductions...
...infinitely more expressive. At one point it sounds like a harpsichord; at another, like a carillon, or like a piano. In melodic passages Diaz's shifts were so smooth and his vibrato so intense that the tone was violin-like. During a Villa-Lobos dance his forceful, resonant bass had a brass quality. Such versatility would in itself distinguish his playing; the remarkable thing is that Mr. Diaz is able to shift moods instantaneously, and sustain two different timbres simultaneously...
...husband's old Senate seat, now being filled by New Hampshire's former Republican Attorney General Maurice ("Mo") Murphy Jr., 34. Appointed by Governor Wesley Powell, Murphy will almost certainly contest Mrs. Bridges in the September Republican primary. Another announced candidate is middle-roading Representative Perkins Bass, a quiet fellow who has been nicknamed "Little Mouth" to distinguish him from Tennessee's noisy Democratic Representative Ross ("Big Mouth") Bass...
...seller: Vivaldi's Four Seasons. In its pursuit of perfection, the group takes four full days to record a 4O-min. LP. The result is a luxurious, butter-smooth string tone, an artful blending of the orchestra's twelve instruments (six violins, two cellos, two violas, harpsichord, bass), a dynamic control that is the envy of other instrumentalists. Also to be envied: the fact that I Musici gets along harmoniously without a conductor...