Word: quartets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Boston Jazz Quartet--1369 Jazz Club...
...QUARTET IN AUTUMN by Barbara Pym Dutton; 218 pages...
...employers, share an office. So vague is their work that even they are not sure exactly what it is they do. Only one thing is certain: they are about to retire, a prelude to dispiriting old age. Barbara Pym, in her first novel in 16 years, indelibly sketches this Quartet in Autumn, whose lives, spent in bedsitting rooms or empty homes, are marked with small regrets and smaller pleasures...
...Adler Quartet--Ryles, Inman Square...
...career takes off, Stoltzman is increasingly on the road, appearing with regional symphonies or with the TASHI Quartet, which he helped to organize. His ambition now is to do for the clarinet what Casals did for the cello: transform his instrument into an eloquent solo performer. "Last spring, when I was playing in Vancouver with the Amadeus Quartet," says Stoltzman, "a 90-year-old man came backstage and said, 'That's the first time the clarinet ever sounded human to me.' That's what I want-to make music that will liberate people." - Annalyn Swan