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...long showcase of nature's charms. Rising at the confluence of the Allegheny and the Monongahela rivers at Fort Pitt (now Pittsburgh's "Golden Triangle"), the Ohio wound through coal-rich mountains to reach the seven hills of Cincinnati, cultural center of the new West. Alive with bass and blue gill, it foamed bright white at Louisville's limestone falls, poured clean blue into the Mississippi's brown waters at Cairo (pronounced care-oh), in Illinois' Little Egypt...
Sportsmen get occasional bass strikes downriver, take special hope from the Pittsburgh sanitation board's report of the first game fish sightings at the headwaters in decades. The Ohio, river named for its beauty, is becoming itself again...
...production as a whole was less exciting. German Tenor Karl Liebl, substituting as Tristan for the ailing Ramon Vinay, had neither stage presence nor the power to match the Nilsson salvos. Baritone Walter Cassel as Kurvenal and Bass Jerome Hines as King Mark both turned in workmanlike performances, and Soprano Irene Dalis was impressive as Brangaene. Conductor Karl Boehm led his orchestra through a methodical reading. As for the decor, with the world's best to choose from, the Met had again picked the second-rate. The sets by German Designer Teo Otto were pedestrian and confusing: starkly realistic...
...small brass and wind ensemble (augmented by a lone bass viol) had far greater problems to overcome in Varese's Octandre, composed in 1924. One of the major difficulties of this score is that it depends for its effect almost entirely on subtle variations of volume and orchestration for its effect. Moreover, it is written without much care for the capacities of the individual instruments and makes enormous, almost unattainable, demands on the rhythmic accuracy of the players. It is certainly not an aggressively unpleasant work and some piquant arrangements of the brass sonorities were intriguing. Yet, the work seems...
...with "$80 and a $3,000 loan,'1 changed its name to Bridgeport Machines, Inc., and went to work manufacturing milling machines. The company now has 400 profit-sharing, nonunion employees, is worth $6,500,000. Married and the father of two daughters, Bannow sings a rousing first bass in a Bridgeport male chorus, the North Star Singers, has given up soccer with Bridgeport's Swedish Athletic Club to play golf. Traveling with his wife, he will spend two weeks out of four on the road next year on N.A.M. projects. In talks on inflation, he will emphasize...