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...down." Sam Rayburn had had a score of freshmen Democrats in for break fast and had passed the word: "If you want to get along, go along." More than 20 members addressed the House. Party lines were wiped out. Ten nessee's Democratic Representative Ross Bass lashed the Republicans for not supporting the bill. As he spoke, Democratic Representative James C. Davis (who has a textile mill in his Stone Mountain, Ga. district) was conferring with Dan Reed about beating it, while Republican Joe Martin had crossed the aisle to consult with Democrat Jere Cooper...
...live surrounded by a litter of parts and soldering irons and spoke a strange jargon full of "cycles," "decibels," "curves," "roll-offs." Pre-hi-fi sets were unable to top the violin's range (about 8,000 cycles per second) and thus were "unfaithful" to all instruments but bass drum, timpani, bass tuba, piano, French horn and trombone (played softly without mutes). So the hi-fi fan went all out for high frequencies...
Result: a widespread confusion of high fidelity with screeching strings and piercing piccolos.* Today, the audiophile has relaxed. He still considers a wide-frequency response a must (good rigs now put out from 40 cps, the lowest bass viol note, to 15,000. one of the higher violin overtones), but the highs have become sweeter and less insistent...
...certain technical aspects the performance was disappointing. In contrast to his silken pianissimos, Levy's loud passages often sounded hard, sometimes even to the point of banging. His concern for detail, moreover, occasionally got out of hand; in the sonata's Andante, principal melodic ideas succumbed to the uninteresting bass line...
...remainder of the program featured works for vocal ensemble, in which the three singers were joined by Barbara Benjamin, soprano. (The absence of a bass singer is explained by the fact that real bass parts do not occur before the end of the 15th century.) Among these songs was Henry VIII's O My Herte, which showed that the King was a better master of vocal than of marital harmony...