Word: duos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whiplash throws of Catcher John Roseboro allowed only two White Sox to steal second in the entire Series. The Dodgers' slick infield, built around the double-play combination of Shortstop Maury Wills and Second Baseman Charley Neal, both lean and limber as greyhounds, outmatched Chicago's famed duo of Shortstop Luis Aparicio and Second Baseman Nellie Fox (7 double plays...
Undercover Cats. Musicians Mitchell and Ruff have the credentials to know. Both are fine classical musicians (Mitchell played with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Ruff has a B.A. and M.A. from Yale) who formed a jazz duo and split their time between lectures and nightclub dates. In Russia, traveling with 30 members of the Yale Russian Chorus on an informal tour, the pair made contact with the young musicians of the Moscow Conservatory, gave an impromptu concert, and were introduced around to Russia's undercover cats...
...duo found that the Russians enjoy their jazz in small groups in the privacy of their homes. They discovered only one place that approached a formal jazz club-a small cabaret in Leningrad. The big surprise was how well up the Russians are on every U.S. style from old-time gutbucket New Orleans to brassy progressive jazz and the slightly atonal West Coast styles so popular in 1959. How do the Russians find out? Simply by taping everything they hear over the Voice of America and by smuggling records through Poland. In literally dozens of homes, the U.S. visitors found...
...opening work was the quaint Duet in D Major by Haydn. There followed the Duo for Violin and Violoncello by the contemporary composer Bohuslav Martinu, a work that is full of technical difficulties and cadenza-like passages for the two instruments. The final work was Ravel's splendid Sonata for Violin and Violoncello, which elicted the most enthusiastic response from the audience...
...program, open to the public, will include Haydn's Duet in D Major, Martinu's Duo for Violin and 'Cello, and Ravel's Sonata for Violin and 'Cello...