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...Trenton, N.J. became America's Bad Boy of Music (the title of his 1945 autobiography) when he wrote Ballet Mécanique "to warn the age ... of the simultaneous beauty and danger of its own unconscious mechanistic philosophy," scored it for eight pianos and a player piano, bass drums, xylophones, rattles, whistles, electric bells and an airplane propeller. This made him a special favorite of Paris intellectuals, where he knew Ezra Pound, Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, and Mrs. James Joyce, who-Antheil remembered-was always asking her husband, "why he didn't write sensible books . . . why he didn...
...effect, at 15 flashes per second, of inducing the shakes in some viewers (Belson keeps his flicker to a safe eight flashes per second). Jacobs controls the sound from a console that is hooked into twelve three-story loudspeakers located about the rim of the planetarium, plus four bass speakers around the room. By turning a crank he can produce rings of sound racing smoothly about the dome's circumference. He can also make his sound tinkle and drip from side to side or leap in front of or behind an audience. Jacobs either uses taped works by other...
...House) to keep the chauffeured Cadillac and most of the extra staff of the leadership office he lost to Indiana's Congressman Charles Halleck. Mr. Sam grandly ruled unanimous consent on his surprise package, despite a noisy objection from Tennessee's loose-tongued Ross ("Largemouth") Bass,*who said it was "an unusual precedent." ¶ Pennsylvania's six-term Republican Congressman Carroll Kearns, onetime Chicago Symphony soloist (baritone) fights a lonely battle for his muse on lawyer-dominated Capitol Hill. Says Kearns, who, at the request of Secretary of State Dulles, recently conducted four Air Force Symphony concerts...
...confused with New Hampshire's tight-lipped Representative Perkins ("Small-mouth") Bass (see cuts...
...heard pieces from the limited repertory of original four-hand works. The five: Mozart's Sonata in C. K.521, Hindemith's Sonata for Four Hands, three works by Schubert (who wrote more four-hand music than any other major composer). In some pieces, Demus played "low" (the bass part) and Badura-Skoda "high" (the treble), in others they switched positions. Since the bass player invariably tends to underpedal to avoid thickness, the pedaling throughout was done by the treble player. When they intertwined their arms in passages of labyrinthine difficulty, the pair presented the bewildering aspect...