Word: quartets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Briggs Hall residents got a boomerang "thank you" for their pre-Christmas party for settlement house children when a quartet of seven-year-old boys descended on the dorm last Sunday for more Radcliffe entertainment--and ice cream...
When Mrs. Coolidge's father, mother, and husband died within 15 months of one another about 1915, Frederick Stock, then conductor of the Chicago Symphony, persuaded her to engage a house quartet to cheer her. Two summers later, when the Stocks were visiting her in the Berkshires, they went to a chamber music festival in Connecticut. At dinner that night, Mr. Stock suggested that Mrs. Coolidge's quartet should play at the festival. Her answer, "Why go so far; why not have it here?" was the beginning of the great scheme which has made the Berkshire Hills of western Massachusetts...
...Norris will swim his specialty, the quarter-mile, during the day's festivities. He looks certain to win. In the dive, Gordon Weir will back Tom Drohan, who will be making his last appearance for Harvard. For the 400-yard freestyle relay, a quartet will be placed together out of Shop Brown, Mort Hull, Bill MacVicar, Bob Burke, Bob Lang, and Art Sicular...
...Haydn: Quartet in C Major, Op. 33, No. 3 (the Griller String Quartet; English Decca, 4 sides). The Griller players add a little unbecoming weight to "The Bird," one of Haydn's best string quartets, but it still flies gayly and engagingly. Recording: good...
Hindemith: Quartet in E Flat (the Budapest String Quartet; Columbia, 6 sides). Yale's Composer-Professor Paul Hindemith wrote this heavy quartet in 1943. Dreary in its slow movements, it even has a note of gloom in its bright ones. Performance and recording: good...