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...The stage dims to a blue light, the double basses begin an ominous drone and a white-clad children’s chorus files onstage in silence....
...It cost $550mn to rebuild the NY Phil’s home, now called David Geffen Hall after the biggest donor....
...They are arranged in a choral fashion, like contrasting chants between basses and altos....
...Curiously, the programme featured an incredible shrinking ensemble, from four double basses to just one in the Adams....
...Boris himself has been a star role for imposing basses such as Boris Christoff and Nicolai Ghiaurov, both hailing from eastern Europe....
...In December 2018, I was scheduled as one of the late Gianfranco Soldera’s last appointments at Case Basse, his estate near Montalcino, Tuscany. But we never met....
...“We are seeing a tug of war between politics and economics,” said David Lebovitz, global market strategist at JPMorgan Asset Management....
...“Allez Basse!”, the band chanted. The closing “Solidarité” brought everyone back. “La beauté n’a pas de frontières/Les frontières n’ont pas de beauté,” sang Diawara....
...Thomas Lauderdale, the main pianist, vamped delightedly through “Mon Homme Marié”, cellos and double basses sternly pizzicato....
...In the past the great singers of this role at the Royal Opera — Boris Christoff, Nicolai Ghiaurov, John Tomlinson — have all been basses....
...David Mills, head of marketing at London’s Goldsmiths’ Company, says tastes are changing....
...The overture delivered: motifs sketched then airily waved away; descending chord sequences out of a 1930s murder mystery; double basses growling against muted trombone and a tiny bell....
...Another percussion-heavy waltz followed, this time with Asian inflections, exacerbated by a pulsing drone effect from the cellos and basses....
...David McKenzie, who generally sticks to pop-oriented conceptualism and performance, has crafted an elegant, inscrutable meditation on Nefertiti....
...It’s a peculiar set of data that makes us leery and sceptical,” says Dan Basse of forecasters AgResource....
...A hot, wet Illinois summer has put veteran farmer David Adcock in a pessimistic mood. He was expecting a bumper crop of corn when he planted 1,500 acres (600 hectares) early this spring....
...“The US is the world’s island of wheat supply,” says Dan Basse, president of AgResource, a Chicago-based consultancy, who forecast that traders would ship overseas about 5bn bushels of corn, soyabeans and...
...flagons (450BC), the David porcelain vases of Yushan, China (AD1351), as well as gorgeous objects made from stone, feathers, jade, sandalwood and silver, we have finally come to such a pitch of excellence...
...He is currently writing a choral piece for mass choir and Japanese drummers, as well as a duet for two double basses. He is unpretentious and very funny....
...The Lamentations set the middle portion of Jeremiah, the Hebrew letters (Heth, Teth, Iod and so on) starting each verse sonorous in the bass, the verses initially creeping up the scale as if ashamed, the basses...
...SIl chief executive Simon Culhane is in Egypt as part of a visit by the Lord Mayor, David Brewer....
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