Word: quartets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bath, mongooses have suckled maternally under his shirt, and baby rodents have waited impatiently for him to tuck the 3 a.m. hot-water bottle under their tiny feet. Animals come close to being Durrell's best friends, and as the zoologist brother of Novelist Lawrence (The Alexandria Quartet) Durrell, he writes about them with style, verve and humor...
...behind the idea are Hal La Pine, a used-truck dealer, and Trucker Pat O'Neill, for the past seven months owners of La Pine's restaurant, on Chagrin Boulevard, where on Monday nights they offer musicales featuring string trios or quartets, solo pianists or violinists, most of them drawn from the ranks of the Cleveland Symphony. Promptly at 9:15 p.m. last week, the members of the Concert Guild String Quartet appeared at the restaurant in white tie and tails and launched into an hour-long program of Schubert's Quartet in A Minor and Mozart...
...Ruff and Mitchell, assisted by Composer-Pianist Robert Helps and Drummer Charlie Smith, presented the U.S. premiére of Paul Hindemith's Sonata for Alto Horn and Piano, followed it with a Ruff-Mitchell composition titled Fugue for a Jazz Trio. The club features a regular string quartet from Yale, and will draw heavily on the talents of such Yale faculty members as Violinist Howard Boatwright, Pianist Seymour Fink. Like their Cleveland counterparts, Ruff and Mitchell feel that the relaxed atmosphere of a club makes for ideal listening. "In a club," says Willie Ruff, "you never...
Prospero's Cell and Reflections on a Marine Venus, by Lawrence Durrell. A publishing duet, about the islands of Corfu and Rhodes, by the author of The Alexandria Quartet confirms his superlative gift as a travel writer who uses scenery to intensify personal feeling...
...overtones, lyrics of Pleistocene simplicity, and a theme preferably proclaiming undying devotion to a faithless loved one. But country music is now wearing city clothes: the traditional fiddle and guitar accompaniment is being replaced by saxophone, drums, violins and even harpsichords. Many a country record is arranged for trio, quartet or even small chorus...