Word: quartets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...circumstances of the wedding itself, which, as Greek newspapers reported with some acidity, was "short, simple and cheap." It cost $2.15. The couple pulled up to a Moscow "wedding palace" in a battered, lemon-yellow Chevy Nova lent by a Greek diplomat. As a piano and string quartet played Mendelssohn's Wedding March, they entered a dark-paneled chamber. The bride and groom promised Klara Remeshkova, the equivalent of a justice of the peace, that they would preserve their love for all their lives, be faithful and loyal and stand together in love and sorrow...
...series at Manhattan's Lincoln Center, where he wore a velvet jacket and what he calls his "dress sneakers," turned into a celebration of the clarinet's possibilities. In Mozart's Quintet for Clarinet and Strings in A Major, which he performed with the Tokyo String Quartet, Stoltzman glided effortlessly through long, sustained phrases. He caressed his instrument into whispery trills and treble work and then commanded a full-bodied tone as smooth as old wine. It was masterly Mozart, and the audience loved...
...past few years, conservative votes by the four-man Nixon bloc have become less certain. For the first time this year, splits in the Nixon bloc happened more often than not. Only 36% of the time did the quartet vote together, as against 67% last year and 73% two years ago. That does not mean that the court's political pendulum has swung back to the left. Rather, court watchers say, the court has become distinctly nonideological. "They have no overarching doctrine," says Virginia Law Professor A.E. Dick Howard. "They're taking cases as they come in pragmatic...
...direction of Jazz, an unexpected anthology of tunes from Jelly Roll Morton, Bix Beiderbecke, even the great Bahamian guitarist Joseph Spence. As the surprise wears off, though, and the rhythms become less remote, they will hear some of the loveliest, liveliest music in the air. Cooder, with band, gospel quartet and full orchestra, last week performed virtually the entire album at Carnegie Hall...
Cooder is assisted throughout by contributions of some exemplary sidemen, ranging from the alto sax of Harvey Pittel and the impeccable piano of Earl Hines to the mellow, foursquare harmonies of Bill Johnson, once lead singer of the Golden Gate Quartet, perhaps the greatest of all gospel groups. Cooder was going for what he calls "the power, the fleetness" of the old music. He got it fine. Listening to Jazz is a sensual, tonic experience in collective musical memory, a little like having a long closed door in your house blown open by a cool, gentle summer wind...