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...hope the gentleman will not try to make a statesman out of me," rumbled Tennessee's Democratic Congressman Ross Bass on the House floor last week. "Let's talk politics." Rarely has Ross Bass or any other Congressman come closer to expressing the will of the House. Under debate was a wheat-subsidy bill-and the outcome was 100% political, unalloyed by the slightest pretense of statesmanship...
...Salvi, it had its premiere in Rome in 1882, was rarely heard after that. Conductor Schippers, of the Metropolitan Opera, spent eight months unscrambling the "blurred, impossible handwriting" of the original score, shaved away Salvi additions, reconstructed most of the originally proposed ending from Donizetti's own figured bass and some solo sketches. What he arrived at was, said Schippers, "pure Donizetti and pure delight...
Holiday for Harp (The Daphne Hellman Quartet; Harmony LP). Harpist Hellman produces some stunning sonorities with an instrument bred to less exotic climes. With the sound sometimes brittle and percussive, sometimes cobwebby soft, Harpist Hellman and her helpers (bass, guitar and drums) swing with sinuous brilliance through Summertime, Swingin' Shepherd Blues, Down the Road a Piece, giving each a fine crystalline gloss...
...village (pop. 1,200) of Algonac, Mich, on the St. Clair River. Algonac was a tough sailors' town situated in the midst of busy Great Lakes maritime commerce. There were a few small hotels, a general store, plenty of canvasback and redhead ducks, walleyed pike, yellow perch, black bass and an occasional sturgeon-and lots of sitting...
...hours, seven sopranos, two mezzos, four baritones, a tenor and a bass worked their way through arias from Mozart, Massenet, Verdi, Wagner. Then, while audience and contestants stepped up to Sherry's Bar for a breather, Bing retired to his office with the other judges, half an hour later came out with the names of the winners. The Met decided to award two contracts-to Tacoma's 30-year-old Baritone Roald Reitan and 20-year-old, Toronto-born Soprano Teresa Stratas. Baritone Reitan, who was turned down by a Met scout four years ago when he auditioned...