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...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...
Stravinsky: L'Histoire du Soldat; Octet for Wind Instruments (Members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Bernstein conducting; Victor, 10 sides). Stravinsky's seldom-heard 1918 setting of the old Russian tale of a soldier, his violin and the devil ranks among his masterpieces. L'Histoire sounds almost like a full orchestra; actually only seven instruments are used, but used for all they're worth. Recording: excellent...
When the big Grey of Army plays host to the varsity wrestling team this Saturday, it will be matching tangling techniques with an initially mediocre Crimson octet, which has muscled its way into an unbeaten record and a fair chance of pinning down the eastern championships...
Back in 1942, several Negro G.I.s at Fort Dix were bored with the kind of entertainment the Army put on for them and decided to make some of their own. The idea was catchy. Before long, they swelled from a quartet to an octet, then to a chorus of 16. By the time Lieut. Leonard de Paur joined the regiment in Arizona, the 372nd Infantry's Glee Club had 55 members, were singing war songs and Negro spirituals with a fair amount of polish, and the Army finally put them on special duty, to do nothing but sing...
...notable poet overnight when veteran Dirt Chaser John S. Sumner got McHugh's publishers into a Manhattan court on an obscenity charge. The book under discussion: McHugh's just-published The Blue Hen's Chickens. What probably shocked Sumner (though he didn't say): an octet of pornographic love poems, "derived" from a translation of Catullus. To Sumner's charge, Random House's joke-collecting President Bennett Cerf (Try and Stop Me) cried: "Absurd!" But Publisher Cerf was not all indignation. "Maybe," he mused, "it will help good poetry get some sales...