Word: quartets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Boxing Club; and two small-change L.A. hoods. The convictions meshed neatly with Senate subcommittee hearings on a bid by Tennessee's Estes Kefauver to create a racket-busting federal boxing commissioner to purge the sport of gangland control. Kefauver's proposal won heavyweight support from a quartet of ex-champions who testified in Washington. Undefeated Rocky Marciano called it "absolutely essential"; normally closemouthed Joe Louis said it would prevent states like New York, the worst case he could think of, from giving gangsters "a chance to get a hold on boxers"; old Ring Foes Gene Tunney...
...program made a pass at traditional music (an opera by Prokofiev, piano works by Debussy and Ravel), but the score card was overwhelmingly modern: a sampling of contemporary Italian music played by the Milan Radio Orchestra, a concert of atonal chamber works by France's Parrenin Quartet, an opera by Germany's Werner Egk. The tone of the festival reflected Tito's promise of a free hand, but Chief Organizer Milko Keleman, 37, an instructor in composition at Zagreb Conservatory, was understandably anxious when Cultural Relations Commissar Drago Vucinic showed up for a concert of electronic works...
...Mozart: Quartet in G Minor for Piano and Strings, K. 478 (Artur Schnabel, piano; the Pro Arte Quartet; Angel). This addition to Angel's fine "Great Recordings of the Century" is one of the best. Recorded in London in 1934, it has better quality than the date might suggest. The piano, generally, comes through more clearly than the strings, which is no tragedy, since Schnabel's performance is supple and airy...
...specialized in fire sales. His relatives still hold virtually all Hudson's stock. (Among them: Mrs. Edsel Ford, whose mother was J. L.'s sister.) The modern Hudson's gets its character from J. L.'s nephews, Richard, Oscar, Joseph and James Webber-a quartet of merchandising geniuses who took over at J. L.'s death in 1912 and turned Hudson's into a quality department store. In April the three surviving Webber brothers-James died last year-turned active management of Hudson's over to old J. L.'s grandnephew...
...clamor for attention over the voices of the others. Although the four begin to "cooperate and exchange ideas" as the work progresses, Carter was so intent on emphasizing their individual identity that he instructed the performers to sit in four separate corners of the stage. (The Lenox String Quartet, which played he work at Ojai last week, refused, said the arrangement would upset their coordination, but the Juilliard String Quartet has obliged to the extent of opining up an 8-ft. gap between players...