Word: octet
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...warscape, an octet of eight rambunctious Jews - most of them American but a couple German - have been set loose with the mission to kill and disfigure the enemy army. "A hundred Nazi scalps each" is the order of the Basterds' leader, Lieutenant Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt, chewing heartily on an Ozark accent), who either doesn't make the distinction between German soldiers and Nazis or doesn't care. While the Basterds are giving the Krauts bloody haircuts, Raine takes his pleasure carving swastikas on the foreheads of his favorite prisoners...
...Sinfonia With an octet of gently glowing valves and a varnished-wood finish, Union Research's Sinfonia ($4,600) looks more like a piece of designer furniture than an amp. What it has in style, it matches in audio quality. This 30-watt-per-channel amp will smooth over the rough edges of any sounds you feed it. www.ukd.co.uk...
...artist Brian Lynch. The Office of the Arts recognized Palmieri for his immense contribution to the formation of the Latin jazz genre by mapping traditional Latin dance beats into an American jazz context. “When I started, there was no Latin Jazz category, and I took an octet and showed the importance of having a Latin Jazz category. And now we find the jazz artists themselves in our category,” avPalmieri said. Beyond the wealth of musical experience and knowledge that Palmieri offered to students, he also presented a medium for thinking about the implications...
...Songs of a Wayfarer”—actually a common mistranslation of the German, it is really closer to “Songs of a Traveling Journeyman”—a tender and anguished piece, as well as Schubert’s masterful Octet, a truly epic work whose six movements are modeled after the classical Divertimento. During the compositional process, Schubert suffered from a severe, and eventually terminal, case of syphilis; shortly after the completion of the Octet he wrote to a friend: “Every night when I go to sleep I hope...
...This music is way older than them too, so it’s not like they are any closer to it.”Jesse C. Rodin, a sixth year graduate student in Musicology at Harvard, represents the new guard of early music lovers. He directs the vocal octet Cut Circle (a reference to a Renaissance symbol used to signify a change in timing), and has stayed active in the early music scene on campus. “This music is just not on the radar for so many people,” he says. “There...