Word: quartets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...calls up visions of the Third Stream, that brief confluence of jazz and classical music long thought dried up. In works like Black, Brown and Beige, Duke Ellington bravely but cautiously ventured across the border that separates the big band from the orchestra; playing with the Modern Jazz Quartet, Pianist John Lewis pushed out the frontiers of his art while still remaining within its bounds. Now Davis, the New Jersey-born, Yale- educated son of a college professor, has gone a step further. Bright, articulate and accomplished, he is an important young American composer who happens to be -- a jazzman...
...always sit in groups. What can we infer about each other, personally, morally, or whatever, from these observations? It would be optimistic to say nothing; still, I hope nothing is the answer. I can never tell by looking who is writing a novel and who is composing a string quartet; people continue their efforts nonetheless, and they continue to surprise...
Kaplan, Jaffe, Shagena and Smith teamed up for 16th place overall in the 400 freestyle relay. Not only was the quartet's trial time of 2:59.25 good for a new school record, but it also marked the best time for the event in Eastern history...
...identity of the fourth starter is still unknown. With the Crimson scheduled to play 14 doubleheaders. Nahigian is hoping for a solid hurler to round out the starting quartet...
...quartet you have four people sing the same lines over and over. There is no dramatic impact," he says. "You [as the director] have to work with the scene in order to suspend the audience's disbelief that there are only four people on stage singing...