Word: quartets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Zeeks!" gasped one teenybopper. "You can't even dance to it!" She was referring to the Beatles' latest release, Eleanor Rigby, in which the shaggy four sing to the accompaniment of a double string quartet. Rigby is typical of the newest and in many ways most welcome upheaval to rock rock 'n' roll in years. To begin with, the familiar big beat of rock 'n' roll is receding-not in sales, but in decibels. The reason is simply that there is a big message in lyrics nowadays, and the kids want to hear...
...songsmith, and what his lyrics lack in depth his melodies make up in lilting appeal. Phillips' wife Michelle, a willowy ex-model, is the spiraling soprano; Denny Doherty, 24, sings a secure tenor. Anchor girl is rotund (200 lbs.) Cass Elliot, 23, whose ringing contralto gives the quartet its oomph. Together they build a buoyant vocal blend that floats easily through intricate harmonic shifts, toying with rhythms that are as fresh and bracing as ocean breezes. The quartet is now on a highly successful college tour, stands to make $1,000,000 this year...
Violist, Stanley Quartet...
...Wednesday is a kind of sexual string quartet arranged for four players, each assigned a key to the same flat. The flat is on Manhattan's Upper East Side, and the wicked rejoinders wafting through the premises kept Broadway playgoers bouncing happily into the high-priced upholstery for a couple of years. Alert to the undertones of Muriel Resnik's comedy, even a prude could relax and enjoy it, secure in the knowledge that every vibrant innuendo was just a homily in disguise. Nobody is perfect, after all-and problems have a way of working...
...football scouts. At Indiana University, for instance, the music department lists 40 teachers from top U.S. orchestras, including three former concertmasters and 15 first-desk players, and such internationally ranked soloists as Violist William Primrose and Cellist Janos Starker. Boasting five campus orchestras and the resident Berkshire String Quartet, Indiana last year sponsored 501 musical events. Snaring topflight musicians is easy, says Indiana's Dean Wilfred Bain (with some exaggeration), because "people who push brooms are treated better than symphony players." Beyond that, the lures of the campus include more security, fatter pensions, sabbatical leaves, tenure, and salaries that...