Word: quartets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Stravinsky composed his ballet Les Noces for a chorus, a quartet of solo singers, four grand pianos and six percussionists, and demanded that they, as well as the dancers, all be onstage. Last week at the New York State Theater, Jerome Robbins crammed them all in, contrived an angular, hectic choreography for Stravinsky's feverish music...
...Playwright William Inge. U.C.L.A.'s theater-arts department has also snared John Houseman and Josef von Sternberg, expects to land Ingmar Bergman next fall. Its art department has had Jacques Lipchitz; its music department, Indian Sitarist Ravi Shankar, Composers Roy Harris and John Vincent - and even a whole quartet in residence, the Feri Roth chamber group...
...intense personal stake in his art, and the university, so often aridly concerned with detached theory. "It is so exciting," says University of Southern California Music Department Chairman Raymond Kendall, "to walk into a studio in the afternoon and find two 18-year-olds playing in a string quartet with Gregor Piatigorsky and Jascha Heifetz." At Southern Illinois University, where former Metropolitan Opera Soprano Marjorie Lawrence, confined to a wheelchair by polio since 1941, conducts an opera workshop, Professor Howard R. Long declares: "When she puts on an opera, by God, it's an opera. I almost cry when...
...Practically everyone on the paper is looking around for a new job," says a staffer. The education correspondent recently returned to his old beat on the Times of London; a quartet of reporters hired to make up a so-called "probe team" quit after finding little freedom to probe...
...blue-green Banana River. When it goes into production this spring, the first stop on the assembly line will be in what Air Force spacemen call the VIB (for Verdeal Integration Building). There, in four identical 180-ft. bays, technicians will be able to assemble a quartet of the Air Force's versatile new Titan IIIC rockets. When one is finished and checked, a pair of railroad locomotives will pick it up between them and lug it to the next building down the line, the SMAB (Solid Motor Assembly Building). At this point, solid fuel motors of varying degrees...