Word: octet
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...Malcolm Johnson's 1949 Pulitzer Prizewinning stories on the New York waterfront (in the late New York Sun), Novelist Budd Schulberg (The Disenchanted) added the results of his own investigations. The product strikes the raucous but curiously subtle pitch of the great port as surely as an octet of harmonizing tugboats...
Lester Lee Bates, 48, is a loud-talking, nondrinking, nonsmoking insurance-company president from Columbia. Bates, who ran a poor second to Byrnes in 1950, never stopped campaigning Accompanied by a male quartet (later built up to a mixed octet), he has hustled around the state speaking at family reunions, barbecues, church dinners and almost anywhere he finds more than two voters gathered. (Cracked a sponsor: "We can get a speaker anywhere, but where else can we get one with a quartet...
...Fogg Museum Courtyard last Thursday included selections written over a three-and-a-half century span. Yet the programming was not in the least incongruous. Quite to the contrary; the two works most separated in time, Byrd's Mass for Four Voices (c. 1588) and Stravinsky's Octet for Wind Instruments (1923), both demanded the same sort of intense and wholly purified approach on the part of the listener. The harmonic and melodic devices of better-known musical epochs were not present to induce those stereotyped emotional reactions or, worse yet, that state of sentimental day-dreaming which are often...
...Stravinsky Octet is scored for flute, clarinet, bassoons, trumpets and trombone. In its exploration of the sonorous possibilities of an unusual chamber group, its purpose is similar to that of Bach Brandenburg Concerti and of various Mozart Serendates and Divertimenti. Its importance in modern music, however, lies in being one of the first works in the "neo-classic" style. Hearing the Octet today in light of all that has followed it in the past 30 years, its dry metrically incisive, often mocking tone seems no longer revolutionary. Yet it still remains a fresh, thoroughly delightful work...
...performance of the Octet maintained the superlative standard set earlier in the evening. Conductor Claudio Spies deserves credit not only for the smoothness of the ensemble but for the love of the work which he imparted to both players and audience...