Word: octets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the total points were counted at the end of the day, Dartmouth still held the lead with 194.5 points. New Hampshire moved into second place with 191.9 and the Norwegian Royal Air Force octet a close third with 190.5. Harvard University, who placed sixth in the langlauf, was in sixth place with 181.6 points...
...push the Californian to the limit. Ewing Walker, Sam Goddard, and Bob Fowler form the nucleus of Anderson's eight, while Captain Shem Gray and Bruce Pirnie give the added zip to Wagner's boatload. Everett Henry, Brown, 3rd, will weigh down the stern of the Anderson octet...
...famed street in New Orleans, the birthplace of jazz-is devoted to two kinds of music, traditional "Dixieland" and modern hot. Trumpeter Henry Levine, who succeeded Nick La Rocca in the fabulous Original Dixieland Jazz Band of two decades ago, handles the New Orleans tunes, with his mostly brass octet. Paul Laval, an Italo-Frenchman (born Joseph Usifer), plays clarinet and saxophone-his occasional saxophone work with the NBC Symphony has earned Toscanini's bravos-and leads the ten wood winds in his own hot arrangements. Guests have included Pianists "Jelly Roll" Morton, Alec Templeton and Joe Sullivan, Blues...
...Hungarian March, "Rakoczy"Berlioz *Ballet Suite Rameau-Motti Minuet from "Platee"--Musette Tambourin from "Fetes d'Hebe" *Scherzo from Octet Mendelssohn *Prelude to "Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg Wagner *Piano Concerto to No. 2, in F minor Chopin Soloist: ELIZABETH TRAVIS *"Show Boat," Selection Kern *Fugato on a Well-Known Theme McBride "Thunder and Lighting," Polka Strauss
...concert is open to the public without charge, and without tickets. The program will be: Concerto, "Dumbarton Oaks"; Octet for Wind Instruments; Concerto for two pianos, played by Mr. Strawinsky and Adele Marcus; and "Histoire d'un Soldat...