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When Jack tried to interest her in the excitement of the market-place she glowered and protested in a deep bass voice. She balked along the way, scolded Jack soundly for forgetting the days when he had used her for a charger or for plowing when it would always spoil the butter. At market it was the cow who was smart enough to insist on being sold for the handful of beans which an old witch claimed would return Jack's father's treasures. Fairy beanstalks need no nurturing so it took only a second...
...Jazz-Suite and Enchanted Isle, were surprised at the melodic simplicity of the Beanstalk score. Most of the music had the smooth, deft charm appropriate to a fairy tale. Only the giant had use for occasional striding dissonances, for an alien piano which characterized him with a noisy, thumping bass...
Conductor Jaroff, small and spry as a cricket, is the chorus' most compelling individual on & off stage. Last year's audiences marked also with special interest Cossack Tierekov, a bass said to have the lowest voice on record, and Cossack Ovtchinikov, whose falsetto is so high that the Don Cossacks are often suspected of concealing a woman in their ranks. Hostesses who entertained the Russians last year or who hired them as performing bears for parties, will remember: handsome Cossack Magnuschensky, the lady-killer, Cossack Kolesnikoff, a bright, understanding little fellow who has a score of anecdotes ready...
...finesse. The Frenchmen scored with their jazz, the sort of thing which made Le Boeuf s reputation and has since stood transplanting into a thousand and more concerts. There was an arrangement of Braham's "Limehouse Blues," given a dozen sombre shades by Doucet's insinuating bass, one of Gershwin's "That Certain Feeling," another of Youmans' "Tea for Two." Unlike Maier & Pattison who took turns carrying the melody, Wiener always plays first piano...
...five that adorned the posters were the partners. At an early family conference it was decided that Brothers Gus and Henry had better just work on a salary. Al was the ringmaster, Otto sold the tickets, Charles wrote the mouth-filling polysyllabic advertisements. John, who used to play the bass viol and drive the lead wagon over dusty prairie roads, became the router, the greatest transportation expert in the circus business*. He lost his brothers and his mustache. He absorbed Barnum & Bailey and in time every important circus in the U. S. so that today every trained lion...