Word: quartets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dance in ski pants, and if you ever get to bed, you might just as well sleep in ski pants." Amherst parties "are definitely of the beery, spur-of-the-moment variety"; a Holyoke girl once complained that "all they ask you for is to sing tenor in some quartet." Princeton parties are held "in rooms that seem no larger than a small station wagon." And a Yale football weekend is "one continuous cocktail party, punctuated by an occasional dance and an afternoon sitting in the cold to sober...
...face, and the walrus mustache, were familiar to San Franciscans, but they were not used to seeing him sitting down, with a viola tucked under his chin. Last week San Francisco concertgoers saw their symphony's conductor, famed old Pierre Monteux, sitting in with a string quartet...
...hadn't played in public concert for nearly 40 years, but he had kept in practice at his summer home in Maine, playing trios with his neighbors-one of them Violinist Tossy Spivakovsky. To prepare himself for his chamber concert, Monteux had practiced with the San Francisco String Quartet for two weeks, while also getting his orchestra ready for its first concert of the season...
...Radcliffe Choral Society and the Harvard Glee Club will give the concert November 21, and the Juilliard String Quartet will play for the last concert in the series, December...
Along with some 500 other people, I was not admitted to a string quartet concert in Sanders Theater . . . owing to the fact that the hall was full by five minutes of eight. I do not object so much to the fact that I could not get in, but rather to the way the milling crowd outside was treated. The yard cop at the door simply said that no more people would be admitted, locked the door and let it go at that. The door was, however, opened two or three times in the next twenty minutes. The first time someone...