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...keeping with the dimensions of the place, the session is expanded to more than double the size of the last one. Definitely coming are, hold your breath: Coleman Hawkins and Pete Brown again; Teddy Wilson's band minus Teddy, but including Edmund Hall, clarinet, Benny Morton, trombone, Johnny Williams, bass, Sidney Catlett drums, and Emmett Berry, trumpet; Frankie Newton and some of his old band, such as Ernie Trottman, and possibly Vic Dickenson...
Honegger's "King David" always brings up the question of whether it should be played by orchestra (scored for woodwinds, double bass, piano and harmonium), or as an oratorio. Both methods have been tried, the former at Mczieres in 1921, and the latter in Rome five years later. There were passages in it, as heard last night, which may have sounded somewhat strange, or out of place; but all in all, the combined groups did not disappoint the many people who have waited so long to hear it performed, and proved that it is as effective a piece of choral...
...roles at a few hours' notice. He has no objection to playing minor roles, usually succeeds in making them seem major. No scene-stealer, he can be counted on to help inexperienced members of the cast. A wonderful example of what the Italians call a basso cantante ("singing bass"), he combines baritone agility with bass sonority and boom. That voice, at the Metropolitan and in concert tours, grosses between $75,000 and $100,000 a year...
...Williams was a canon of Washington, D.C.'s great unfinished Episcopal Cathedral of SS. Peter & Paul. He had since learned what battle action was like. One afternoon last September, when the 14,700-ton Wasp was struck by three Jap torpedoes and twanged like the string of a bass viol, Chaplain Williams had pitched in to help move the wounded across surging decks, heat-pocked with six-inch blisters...
...famed glass-bottomed boats, through which avid-eyed tourists once stared back at opal-eyed bass, were tied up at the docks. The $2,000,000, twelve-story casino, on whose Moorish-Spanish exterior thousands of weekenders penciled their names, was a part time classroom; the expensive St. Catherine Hotel was a training headquarters and barracks; the Wrigley-built Hotel Atwater was a school and dormitory for marine stewards, cooks and bakers...