Word: quartets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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THELONIOUS MONK: BIG BAND AND QUARTET IN CONCERT (Columbia). Seven of the pieces Thelonious played at his Philharmonic Hall debut last winter (TIME cover, Feb. 28). The band arrangements by Composer Hall Overton add more than variety; they provide a new and striking dimension for Monk's high-styled melodies. Monk and his men-particularly Phil Woods on alto sax and Charlie Rouse on tenor-rose to the challenge of the big audience and played to make memories. The recording catches the excitement...
Together with the Juilliard String Quartet (TIME, Aug. 23), the new trio gives the U.S. unsurpassed mastery of chamber music. Critics struggling to define its excellence find no one around to compare it with. They hark back instead to the years before World War I when French Pianist Alfred Cortot, French Violinist Jacques Thibaud and Pablo Casals were the presiding maestri. Even the great trio of the '40s-Heifetz, Feuermann and Rubinstein-is not in the running, for Stern, Rose and Istomin make up a trio unique in attitude as much as accomplishment. They play as if for themselves...
Wendell Mottley means probable victories for Yale in the 440-yd. run and mile relay, the Crimson's two weakest running events. Army's Rance Farrell and Keith Jenkins are likely 440 scorers, and the West Point mile quartet is the second best in the league...
...They got a Princeton application form, sent it to a confederate at Michigan State University who forwarded a bogus transcript of Oznot's high school record, along with glowing recommendations from teachers. When it came time to take the college entrance boards, two members of the Princeton quartet signed in as Oznot, scored in the high 700s (top: 800). When Oznot had to appear for a personal interview, the Princetonians induced a friend from Columbia University to pose. He showed up with a copy of Virgil under one arm, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED under the other, and made a great impression...
...Frost made an annual pilgrimage for ten years. Britain's T. S. Eliot made it a top stop. So have scores of other writers -Robert Graves, Thomas Mann, E. E. Cummings, Joyce Cary, Wallace Stevens, Aldous Huxley, Marianne Moore, Tennessee Williams, James Baldwin, John Cheever. The Budapest String Quartet first thrived there. So did Choreographer Agnes de Mille, who says that without the Y modern dance would be ancient history...