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...salute ushered in the sunrise across the eucalyptus-covered hills around Ethiopia's capital of Addis Ababa. In St. George Cathedral more than 100 stocking-footed priests of the Coptic Christian Church began their matins to the booming rhythms of a throbbing bass drum and the jangle of silver rattles. In the streets thousands of adoring subjects set up a howling cry of greeting for Emperor Haile Selassie, the Conquering Lion of Judah, Elect of God and 225th in a long line of Ethiopian emperors who traced their ancestry back to the Queen of Sheba herself. A moment later...
...into a decrepit hack. We fell into O'Neill's room some time about five. I had just purchased that day a copy of SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY. When the dawn broke, I was sitting on a trunk, Elkins sprawled across the bed, O'Neill reading in his powerful, melancholy bass, poem after poem from that disturbing collection." --John V.A. Weaver, a classmate...
...Symphony (70 semipros and amateurs) opened with Met Baritone Leonard Warren as guest. The Cedar Rapids Symphony (69 amateurs and 17 members of the musicians' union) had a full house with, said Conductor Henry Denecke, "no one out with the flu and the bases loaded," i.e., all five bass chairs occupied, no simple matter in Cedar Rapids...
...first piece on the program, Bach's Suite No. 3 in D, showed immediately the tremendous improvement in the violins, whose tone is beginning to sound professional. The 'cellos and basses sounded weak, as they did later in the concerto, and they failed to provide the strength and insistence so essential to the crucial bass line in both Bach and Brahms. It was also disappointing to have the "French overture" rhythms played incorrectly, losing all their force...
...members of the University Band are feverishly racing against the clock this morning in an effort to retrieve the world's largest playable bass drum in time for tonight's Dartmouth Concert...