Word: quartets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). The Liverpudlian quartet's first (and best) movie, A Hard Day's Night, with Wilfred Brambell as Paul's clean old granddad. Repeat...
Aside from the law, Fortas' lifelong interest has been music. His Sunday afternoon music group is famous as the "3025 N Street Strictly-No-Refunds String Quartet." Any visiting violinist or cellist who passes through Washington is likely to be pressed into service. The Justice numbers Rudolf Serkin, Isaac Stern and Pablo Casals among his friends, and has helped to arrange the annual Casals Festival in Puerto Rico. In a jest that his enemies might not recognize, he has sometimes introduced himself at White House functions as "Abe Fortas?I am a violinist." His Italian Guidantus violin...
DUBROVNIK (July 10-Aug. 25). The historic Adriatic seaport offers an array of opera, dance and music that includes the Moscow Philharmonic, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, London's Amadeus Quartet and Zubin Mehta conducting the Belgrade Philharmonic...
...numerous and complex to fit dramatically into a single scene. In the dazzling aria di bravura, Wasn't It Operatic?, she sings of her successful debut in Die Fledermaus in 1955, and of her subsequent leading roles in Faust, Don Giovanni and The Ballad of Baby Doe. A quartet of music critics, bearing bouquets of flowery superlatives, utters the rousing paean, These Tired Ears Lo at Long Last Rejoice. They praise Beverly's performance in The Tales of Hoffmann-in which she portrays all three heroines. They worship her Cleopatra in Handel's Julius Caesar, a role...
...keys elude your touch like fishes swimming away from under your fingers." What a sport! In a few days we are going to hear the soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf at the Ribat of Monastir, Tunisia. Then, while cruising to Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia, there will be a recital by the Amadeus Quartet and Jean-Pierre Rampal, the flutist. Then on to Catania, Naples and Cannes, where Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli will give a piano recital...