Word: octet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...friend of the family, brought me a little book of manuscript paper . . . from about the year 1840 . . . I like very much little antiques and I thought I shall use it ... I found there were eight staves on the paper. I thought it is not my plan to write an octet. I had thought to write quartets. And then I thought why should I not write two quartets in that little book and make an octet out of them...
Princeton was the goat of last week's rain-drenched encounter, dropping back a full length in the first quarter mile of the race. When the '52 shell shot across the finish line with a time of 10:19, the Tiger octet was a full two and a half lengths to the rear...
...money they made bought them a year of rehearsal time. They played whenever & wherever they could, giving concerts in barns, corn exchanges and the homes of friends. They finally got to play the Mendelssohn Octet with the Pro Arte String Quartet ("they were the gods"). Says Griller: "We had terrific competition-the Budapest, the Busch, all the finest. But we worked our way, rather like worms." For a while they did not even have a name. "I had gone over to Ireland to visit my girl. When I got back, the other three told me they...
Only shift in the day's schedule came when cocktails and buffet supper, featuring an octet of bag-pipers, was moved from Sever Quadrangle to Memorial Hall...
...downstream for the start of the last heat of the afternoon, Winthrop's stroke "Dunc" McCollester broke his oar in a fit of youthful exhuberance, delaying the race till the late supper hour. It proved to be an ill omen for hapless Dudley's octet, which chopped its way past the white flag roughly a minute after Winthrop...