Word: quartets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Monterey Jazz Festival in California last week, Composer-Saxophonist John Handy and his quartet launched into their opening number. Crash. A microphone toppled over. Handy tried to recover with a spiraling solo, but just as he built to a climax, the roar of a Boeing 727 jet drowned him out. Handy pressed on, but then the reed in his alto sax went sour, grounding the high-register flights that he plays so well. Undaunted, he introduced Blues for a High Strung Guitar-but wait, where was the guitar player? Unstrung backstage, as it happened, where he had to dash...
MOZART: CLARINET QUINTET IN A, AND OBOE QUARTET IN F (Deutsche Grammo-phon). The literature for these instruments, two of the most important in the orchestra, is very limited. These pieces are among their chief showcases. Lothar Koch plays the oboe with spirit in the early, conventional Mozart quartet. Karl Leister is oddly restrained and diffident in the clarinet quintet, and is often overshadowed by the other players, especially Siegbert Ueberschaer's viola. All the performers are with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra...
...Hunt. A burgeoning new school of camera-wise Spaniards enters a sturdy claim for recognition in this spare, gruesome drama about a quartet of upper-crust Spanish hunters-three middle-aged malcontents and a wealthy young sprout-who slaughter rabbits for sport. The cool mechanics of death are recorded in some of the most grisly hunt scenes ever filmed, and during a long, hot afternoon the lust for killing slowly grinds toward a fitting climax. Boozing and broiling in the sun, the men try to buy, sell and slander one another. The hair triggers of anxiety touch off frustrations over...
...early films of René Clair, Renoir and De Sica. The young city visitors quicken the tempo of existence for Bambas' family. Everyone goes off to supply music at a country funeral. Later the menfolk, including Grandpa, get together with the village pharmacist to form a string quartet in a rehearsal sequence that is disrupted by intramural arguments and arthritic aches, with additional time called by Peter's giddy girl friend for sexual overtures and fun with a cat. The scene is a brilliant tour de force of unstrained comic invention...
...Beatle debate continues, and teen-boppers all over the nation are coming to the rescue of their sacred quartet. The generational war has begun, and Virginia S. Daniels of 36 Acorn St., Malden, is circulating a petition in defense of John Lennon's remark that the Beatles are more popular than, Jesus, Miss Daniels has received a number of Bibles from those who are concerned for her soul...