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...remote; she was a primitive thing driving away evil spirits to the fire music made from de Falla's Amor Brujo, snapping her fingers, clucking her tongue; a comic spirit cavorting on a peasant's holiday. She danced without accompaniment, was herself the musician, playing a busy bass with her heels while her castanets turned the tune of a Seguidillas...
...ensemble is composed of a piano first and second violin cello double bass and clarinet...
Koussevitzky's Double-bass...
...young Russian, no money in his pocket, trudged up the steps of the Moscow Conservatory and asked for a scholarship. Scholarships were scarce, they told him. There was just one left?and that for the double-bass. The boy hesitated, turned as if to go and then came back, asked if they would teach him the double-bass...
Twenty years ago there was no greater contrabassist in all Europe than Serge Koussevitzky but he outgrew even that colossal instrument, became a conductor. Not until last year did he gather his admiring Bostonians around him and show them what he used to do with the double-bass. Boston rhapsodized but Manhattan waited to form her own judgment. In Boston King Koussevitzky can do no wrong. Neither could he last week in Manhattan. Of his first double-bass recital there, Critic Lawrence Oilman wrote in part...