Word: quartets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Symphony (Sun. 5 p.m., NBC). Frank Black conducts Haydn's Military Symphony, Debussy's Quartet for Strings, Tchaikovsky's Marche Slave...
...Tanglewood, Idomeneo was a joy to hear. Wrote the New York Times's Critic Noel Straus: "For its astounding choral writing alone, Idomeneo would be worthy of frequent hearings. No two of the choruses are alike. . . . Never was Mozart to write a finer operatic ensemble than the great quartet in this opera...
...Metropolitan's Richard Bonelli (voice), England's Griller Quartet (chamber music) and Composer Ernest Bloch (music craftsmanship) are on the faculty. Sponsors include Pierre Monteux, Artur Rodzinski, Bruno Walter, Yehudi Menuhin, Artur Rubinstein, Laurence Tibbett, Helen Traubel, Lotte Lehmann and Joseph Szigeti. Hollywooders Darryl Zanuck, Ronald Colman, Alec Templeton and Jeanette MacDonald chipped in scholarships...
...world were there meatier, tastier ducks than those which the Emperor Tung Chi raised in the Imperial aviaries at Peking, China. In 1873 a Connecticut Yankee named James E. Palmer contrived to bring three of the Emperor's ducks and one indispensable drake to the U.S. This quacking quartet hatched an industry...
...leader, who was killed 2½ years ago in a plane crash over the English Channel. The band still carried around Miller's custom-made trombone. Last week crowds who jammed into the huge casino heard the familiar sweet ballad style-a clear, wan clarinet leading a throaty quartet of saxophones in the melody, backed by a powerhouse of brass-that had once made Glenn Miller the No. 1 jukebox favorite...