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...recording its great merit is that it keeps perfect balance; most choral records sound as if there were twenty sopranos for every bass. However, the transfer from tape to disk was sloppily done. The review copy had serious pre-echo, intemittent hiss, and a series of clicks which sounded like liconic castanets. Furthermore, neither record has any lead-in grooves; so that the first moments of each side are lost unless the needle is put on with a loving and very steady hand...
This topnotch recording, conducted by Vienna's Karl Boehm and sung by an outstanding cast headed by Soprano Leonie Rysanek and Bass-Baritone Paul Schoeffler, reveals the Strauss score in all its turbulent brilliance, at times long-winded and meandering, but always the work of a master...
...thousand one-night stands and red-lit neon holes from San Diego to Baltimore. In a Beat as Big as a bass-fiddle, tight-drum Hot America. In the dull roar and muted chant of the Juke Box Generation. We shall survive--and prosper. Man, you heard it here...
...Debate Council was the recipient also of a booby prize, donated by the Dartmouth Forensic Union, in the form of a small model of a drum. On it was inscribed: "Presented in memory of those valiant (sic) men who made the ultimate sacrifice in defense of the Harvard bass drum...
Russia's Dmitry Shostakovich, 51, is one of the 20th century's most gifted composers, but that has not kept Soviet politicians from pounding him like a bass drum. In the '30s and '40s Communist officials let him have it fortissimo for writing music that failed to trace a melodic line straight to the heart of the average Russian. Composer Shostakovich has long since recanted his sins and been allowed once again to sing for his supper. The song he sang last week, his brand-new Eleventh Symphony, was supposed to help celebrate the 40th anniversary...