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...greatness of these 350-year-old madrigals lies in the combination of lovely Elizabethan poetry and musical settings which preserve a consistent harmonic structure while observing equality of line. Each part, from soprano to bass, is melodic and fun to sing. Woodworth has long spoken of madrigals as after-dinner music, and on Friday he proved his point by placing his 16 best singers around a table for several of the pieces. Morley's My Bonny Lass and Shoot, False Love sounded especially buoyant in this arrangement...
...glimpses of wide vistas on the other side. The second movement went along at a dashing, rustic gallop, while the third strutted with the bravado of a teen-ager unaware of being observed. Some of the loveliest music came when the high clarinet played a melting melody while the bass clarinet throbbed, followed by a slam-bang finale...
...doctors' orchestra was organized in 1938, now numbers some 50 medical men, their relatives and a handful of professional musicians, including Conductor Maxim Waldo. There are no standard medical-musical tie-ups. Dentists play violins, cello, horn, bass. General practitioners play flutes and timpani, a dermatologist plays viola. The doctors prefer to remain anonymous to avoid publicity that might be contrary to medical ethics...
...splicing tapes) to achieve a spirited effect, while Perry Como (in a reissue) transforms God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen into a queasy dirge. The curtain on Victor's celebration is rung down by Christmas, Christmas, with chorus, chimes and strings uniting to provide a festive background while the bass voice of George Beverly Shea repeats "Chrishmush, Chrishmush...
...Smithsonian Institution by White House aides, who secretly installed it at Gettysburg. Upstairs are six bedrooms and a studio in which Ike can paint as he looks out over the Blue Ridge. His other hobbies are served by a new putting green and a pond freshly stocked with bass...