Word: cossack
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Harvard band has to pay for its own dress and consequently is very definitely limited; but even if some trumpet-conscious Maecenas gave from what he had left after the Stock Market crash to buy gilded epaulettes and Cossack helmets for the bandplayers, it would be unfortunate if the musicians succumbed to the glamor and the tinsel...
Placidly General Ivan Miller, No. i White Russian in Paris, observed: "When opportunity arrives our army will cross the borders to fight Stalin." Added Cossack General A. P. Bogaievsky fiercely, "We have several cavalry divisions training in Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and Bulgaria -merely awaiting the word to cross the Russian frontier...
...this same emotionalized vein the concert proceeded through Russian church music and folk songs. The Cossacks sing either very loudly, with stunning effect, or softly with effect just as stunning. The voices have the mellifluous, full-throated quality peculiar to Russians and so well suited to music in the minor mood. There are basses which seem to come from the bowels of the earth. (Cossack Tierekov, said to have the lowest voice on record, recently had his throat photographed in Berlin.) There are falsettos which soar high into the soprano realm. (Audiences often suspect Cossack Ovtchinikov of being a woman...
...Cities to hear the Don Cossack Chorus: Troy, Boston, Montreal, Toronto, Detroit, Ann Arbor, St. Louis, Chicago, Minneapolis, Madison (Wis.), Pittsburgh, Akron, Indianapolis, Dayton, Cincinnati, Grand Rapids, Lansing, Hartford (Conn.), St. George (Staten Island). Baltimore, Washington...