Word: quartets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first will feature Robert Koff, formerly with the Juilliard String Quartet, who will lead House musicians in a public concert tonight at 8:30 p.m. The entire Juilliard Quartet will perform in a later program...
...real excitement will probably be saved for the last. Unless McCurdy decides to skirt the issue--and that would not be like McCurdy--spectators still around for the two-mile relay should see one of the hottest races in years. The Crusader quartet of Buchta, Bowers, Paul Lilly, and Jack O'Connor has done under 7:40, but the Crimson can field a strong lineup...
...cast as an orchestral suite five years later. A dissonant, vigorous work full of shrilly chattering string passages and raucously braying brasses, it gives the effect, as do many of Sessions' works, of the familiar tilted intriguingly out of plumb. Also included in the Northwestern program: the String Quartet No. 2 (1951), a serenely flowing, moderately dissonant work that rarely raises its voice above a grey, enervated note of despair; the Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (1956), whose stabbing, fragmented salvos of sound hit the listener like an icy shower...
...mile relay team of Don King, Gus Schumacher, Harry Rich, and Don Kirkland fell back to third place on the first leg and never was able to close the lengthy gap. The mile quartet immediately lost the pole in the Big Three race and fell 15 yards behind Yale and Princeton, who battled for the lead. Yale, thanks to Tom Carroll, who held off the challenge of Princeton's Dick Edmunds in the anchor leg, won the race in 3:30.4, followed by Princeton and--25 yards behind--the Crimson...
...varsity two-mile relay squad was second behind a strong Holy Cross quartet in a rapid 7:48.2 race. Fred Howard's 1:55.1 leg paced the Crimson. Dave Nawl turned in a surprising 50.6 440 as the mile relay unit finished second to Yale. The Yardling mile relay team, with Eddie Meehan running 52.0, also took second, behind the Eli freshmen...