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...Dodd told fellow delegates to the National Piano Tuners' convention in Kansas City that rock 'n' roll is raising hob with the nation's keyboards. For the first time in his long professional career, he said, he had seen a piano's thick bass chord snapped by a pianist flailing out a thundering rock-'n'-roll chorus...
...Nassau County. Besides an eight-room Manhattan apartment, he has a 7O-acre waterfront estate in Greenwich, Conn., where he has moved more than a million cubic yards of earth to change the shoreline, installed a null swimming pool, and dredged out a ^2-acre fresh-water lake for bass. Last week he bought a twelve-room, $27,000 Greenwich house, Y$ mile from his estate, just to house his servants...
Personality: Reticent, honest, quick-witted, forthright and cool, he is smallish (5 ft. 7½ in.), a conservative dresser and the possessor of a deep bass voice and a dry, often penetrating wit. Unostentatious, he drives to his Pittsburgh office from his home in Sewickley, Pa. in a 1954 two-door Ford, likes to watch baseball games. Hobbies: golf, fishing and photographing his grandchildren. Bargainer Stephens' definition of the requirements of his job: "To be a skilled negotiator takes character, integrity, quick wit, a keen mind, the ability to speak as the moment requires−with humor, sincerity, pathos...
Russian Operatic Arias (Raphael Arie, basso; Paris Conservatory Orchestra conducted by Alberto Erede; London). One of the world's best bass voices, used as it should be, in some of the finest bass arias. Included: songs from Eugene Onegin, Prince Igor, Sadko, Boris Godunov...
...Vandenburg arrived unannounced, auditioned and was hired on the spot. All over Europe, and especially in Germany, young American singers are singing for European audiences, hoping to follow in the paths of such Europe-polished Americans as Coloratura Mattiwilda Dobbs, Mezzo-Soprano Risë Stevens, Contralto Jean Madeira and Bass-Baritone George London to the roster of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera...