Word: quartets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). "Opera: Two to Six" starts with a Tosca duet by Joan Sutherland and Tito Gobbi, grows into the trio from Faust, the Verdi quartet from Rigolctlo, a Wagner quintet from Die Meistersinger, and finally the sextet from Donizetti's Lucia di Lammcrmoor, in which the two are joined by Nicolai Gedda, Jerome Mines, Mildred Miller and Charles Anthony...
...courage to write in the familiar mainstream tra dition of Bartok and Prokofiev-the titters of twelve-tone, modified twelve-tone, post-Webern and electronic cliques notwithstanding. That is not to say he is old hat. Within the bounds of con ventional forms like the symphony, sonata, string quartet and concerto, Lees manages to be fascinatingly original and thoroughly contemporary...
...Crimson quartet, composed of Trey Burns, Royce Shaw, Jim Baker, and Dave McKelvey, opened up a 40-yard lead mid-way through the race and then held off a desperate finish by Villanova's Dave Patrick to secure...
...neral, bickering all the way to the Brooklyn synagogue. Sometimes the quarrels center around Booke's Volkswagen, an offense to Wiseman's anti-German sensibilities. Sometimes the men vie with each other in a heated trivia contest (who were the members of the Rinkydinks?). When the quartet collides with a Negro cab driver (Godfrey Cambridge), their debate rises to tidal proportions, only to unroil when the cabbie turns out to be a convert to Judaism. The mourners arrive late for the services and giggle derisively as a rabbi (Alan King) intones a gross caricature of a eulogy...
...Harvard goes with its strongest unit in the two-mile relay--composed of Baker, Shaw, Trey Burns, and Dave McKelvey--this could be the race of the day. Villanova's team holds the world's record, but it was recorded on a fast eight-lap track. Harvard's quartet ran the country's fastest 11-lap indor two-mile of the season--the third fastest in history--with a 7:28.2 clocking in the USTFF Invitational Meet...