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...Bass...
Thirty years ago a baseball team made up of employes from Marshall Field's, No.1 Chicago department store, wound up its season with a deficit. Great was the stew among Marshall Fielders until William Burnell Towsley came forth with a suggestion. Mr. Towsley liked to exercise his resounding bass voice. He knew other Marshall Field employes who sang, suggested a Marshall Field Choral Society which might give a concert, raise funds to clear another baseball season. The Marshall Field baseball team has long been forgotten. The Marshall Field & Company Choral Society gave its 30th annual concert last week...
...filled up again. The Ford again showed signs of passing him, but the game Chevrolet driver depressed his accelerator a bit more and drew away. And so the informal race continued, the Chevrolet playing with the Ford in much the same way that a fisherman casts for small-mouthed Bass-giving him plenty of slack and then drawing...
...magic wheel, but within the Orchestra each player has an important identity. Violinist Alexander Hilsberg is envied for his $35,000 Guarnerius which once belonged to Jan Kubelik. Tubaman Philip Donatelli is the orchestra's winemaker, father of seven daughters. Two Spanish Torellos play in the double-bass section. Father Anton is an oldster in the Orchestra. His son Carl is there to follow in his footsteps. Trumpeter Saul Caston is conducting in Evansville, Phoenix and Holdrege, Neb. Caston conducted first at a Dell summer concert in 1931, when Albert Coates was suddenly taken ill. For a few hair...
Idea for a stool came to him five years ago when he was given a concerto by Composer Antonio Scontrino who made such technical demands that few double-bass players have dared to wrestle with it. Waldemar Giese was not to be daunted...