Word: duos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Coach Cooney Weiland said yesterday he hoped Johnston will be ready when the Crimson resumes its schedule Feb. 2. For the time being, Weiland will use sophomore John Daly as part of one defensive duo with Mike Patterson. He also plans to take Charlie Kessler along as a fifth defenseman...
With Humann pacing their attack, B.C. outshot the Crimson, 41 to 31 per cent. Harvard successfully contained the much-publicized duo of Gerry Ward and Charlie Carr, who had collected 43 points in the Eagles' opener against Miami, but Humann made up the difference...
...were sold in the U.S. alone-player pianos could not only play loud and soft by themselves but could reproduce every nuance of shading and expression of a Paderewski or a Gershwin (both of whom sat down at a special recording piano and cut rolls on the Duo-Art label...
Despite the commitment to improvisation, both Cage and Christian Wolff do limit the performer's freedom. In his Atlas Eclipticalis Cage lays out alternative paths between groups of notes whose duration and number, though not order, are specified; Wolff, in his Duo for piano and violin, details no paths but indicates specific cues to follow. The performers did not display any of the intense fascination or variation of common patterns which mark jazz and are essential to improvisation in general. Even if the performance of the Cage piece had been good--and it certainly was not--no compelling seriousness would...
...that the works had no appeal. In the Atlas contact microphones mounted on each instrument added an ominous depth to the sound: melody leaped tantalizingly among sharp, bare rad, violin, generated an awesome tension when notes and percussive punctuation until engulfed by electronic bellowings. A fine performance of the Duo by Wolff at the piano and Anthony Condelicate stabs of sound and momentary eruptions broke the frequent stretches of silence. The style grasped my attention because its bareness provoked a wary expectancy of what would be thrust out next...