Word: quartets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mozart: Quintet in D Major for Strings, K. 593 (Milton Katims, violist, with the Budapest String Quartet; Columbia, 6 sides). Somber but superb Mozart, superbly played. Recording: fair...
Beethoven: Quartets Nos. 7, 8 and 9, Op. 59 (Paganini Quartet; Victor, 3 volumes, 26 sides). The new Paganiril Quartet plays the three famed "Rasoumowsky" quartets with competence but without fire. The first one has been done better by the Roth Quartet, and the other two by the Budapest. Recording: good...
After dark Dick Harlow moved his men under the Stadium lights for an exceptionally long signal drill. The A team backfield of the Brown game, consisting of Gannon, Kenary, Hal Moffie, and Paul Lazzaro remained intact, and it seems likely that this quartet will start against Yale...
...with comparative freedom-and did so. He visited markets (where potatoes were selling for 56 cents a pound) and department stores (where "a pair of shoes was priced at $125"), dropped in on a musicale which turned out to be Dmitri Shostakovich at the piano with his own string quartet, saw a "three-dimensional" movie of Robinson Crusoe, prowled side streets and alleyways...
Four of the seven men Barclay now is alternating as his first string operatives measure at least six feet three inches. Center Bill Prior of last year's Jayvee team tops the quartet at six-six, Captain George Hauptfuhrer is next at six-five, while former Freshman John Rockwell and veteran Steve Davis bring up the rear at six-three each...