Word: quartets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dixieland band, The Crimson Stompers; the Harvard Krocodiloes, a Cambridge edition of the Whiffenpoofs; and a freshman quartet, the Four Flats are the collegiate entertainers...
...Bartok: Quartet No. 6 (Gertler String Quartet; English Decca, 7 sides). Bartok's six quartets are possibly the most impressive since Beethoven; in the finer moments of this last quartet (1939), as in Beethoven's last, the great breadth and depth of the composer is revealed clearly and simply. Performance and recording: good...
Thompson: Quartet No. 1 (Guilet String Quartet; Concert Hall Society, 6 sides). A good quartet; Harvard's Randall Thompson is full of the flavor and drive of the U.S. - but also owes a little to his teacher, Ernest Bloch. Performance and recording (on Vinylite): excellent...
...Quartet (Rank; Eagle Lion), British cinema's talent-studded gift to Somerset Maugham on his 75th birthday, is a neatly packaged film based on four unrelated Maugham short stories. Expertly scripted by R. C. Sherriff (Odd Man Out, This Above All, etc.) and urbanely introduced by Author Maugham himself, it also makes a handsomely mounted gift for moviegoers who don't insist on all the Hollywood formulas...
...Quartet ends with The Colonel's Lady, an exhilarating snifter of Maugham's best vintage. It describes the troubles of a Blimpish colonel and his mousy, neglected wife whose little volume of passionate love poems suddenly becomes a nationwide bestseller. Cecil Parker and Nora Swinburne are just right in the leading roles, and the camera makes some telling, acidulous comments on club-chair Berties and Mayfair literati...