Word: octet
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...playwright had stumbled into some improbable locker room of maiden aunts. It takes no imagination at all to see this play on Broadway next season with an all-star cast. Before they consider that, producers are invited to check out the A.T.L.'s near flawless octet of biddies...
...Director John Simpson hosted a meeting with his counterparts from Boston College, Providence College, Northeastern and New Hampshire, with the aim of forming a new league, to begin play in 1984-85. The five a.d.'s chose unanimously to invite St. Lawrence, Clarkson, and Maine to round out the octet...
...severe as his customary costume of unadorned white shirt and dark trousers, there is a deep warmth in his best works: Music for 18 Musicians (1976), one of Reich's longest (nearly an hour) and texturally richest pieces, infused with an uncharacteristic sense of brooding and menace; the Octet (1979), a sunny minimalist ode to joy; and Tehillim...
...music camp, and certainly not a bunny farm, it defies conventional classification. Ask any of its devoted alumni (and there are dozens at Harvard) what it is, and you'll get a dreamy look and something like, "Oh, it's just magical. We went skinnydipping and played the Mendelsohn Octet until 4 a.m. Like, it's the most amazing experience I've ever...
Harvard's junior varsity and frosh oarsmen dimmed any Bruin hopes of a renaissance with wins in Saturday's preliminaries. The J.V. squeaked by, 6:05.7 to 6:06.8; but Ted Washburn's rookies, a traditionally invincible octet, wasted Brown's version of Yardlings...