Word: quartets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With the publication of A Division of the Spoils in 1975, English Author Paul Scott completed The Raj Quartet -a four-novel, 2,000-page saga set in India during the sunset of British rule. To the regret of Scott's many devotees, that seemed to be that: the last of the white sahibs and memsahibs taking their bows in a long, engrossing valedictory. Not quite. Staying On offers another look at a locale familiar to readers of The Raj Quartet. This new novel is less a sequel than a graceful comic coda to the earlier song of India...
...jazz highlight of this weekend is 30 minutes out of town. Bossa nova master Stan Getz is bringing his tenor sax and his quartet to Sandy Berman's Jazz Revival in Beverly (54 Cabot St., 922-7515) through July 3. In addition to regular evening sets, the Getz quartet will play a special Sunday matinee from 4-7 p.m. Monday night traditional jazzmen Dave Whitney and Reggie Phillips take over...
...time numbers like "A Bicycle Built for Two," "The Band Played On," and "A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight." There is also, for the piccolo-playing Dorothy, a punningly titled "Play Us a Polka, Dot," and, farther on, an example of the old unaccompanied barbershop quartet (actually a quintet here), "Pretty Jennie Lee." The opening scene, in proprietor Schmidt's beer-garden, provides the endearing folkish song "'Twas Not So Long Ago," which points to Schmidt's immigrant origins by being sung first in German by him and then in English by his daughter Addie; and this song...
...first Rivers singled and scored on singles by White and Chambliss. In the third New York got two more on safeties by Rivers, White, Munson, and a sacrifice fly by Chambliss. Finally, the quartet got its final tally in the seventh, when Rivers singled, moved to second on a walk to White, and scored on Munson's single to left. Chambliss did not figure in that one. Tough luck, Chris...
Died. Paul Desmond, 52, jazz musician whose lyrical, witty alto saxophone counterpointed Dave Brubeck's assertive piano in Brubeck's quartet for 17 years; of lung cancer; in Manhattan. Desmond composed few pieces for the group, but his Take Five, inspired by the sound of a Nevada slot machine, was the first instrumental jazz number to sell over a million copies...