Word: quartetting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heard him I said 'there's mah man!'" At first, Louis just listened. He ran errands, hawked bananas, ground up old brick and sold it to prostitutes for scouring their front steps on Saturday mornings. When he was eleven, he also started a street quartet in which he sang tenor, picked up loose change by serenading through the red-light district. Says Armstrong: "A drunk come along, and maybe he'd give us a dollar. The grown folks were workin' for a dollar a day then." Only his mother was still calling him Little Louie...
...quartet Little Louis was a tenor, but his ambition in 1913 was to sing bass. His change of mind began one New Year's Eve, when he was twelve. To celebrate, he had hauled his father's old .38 revolver out to the street and fired it off. He was picked up and taken to juvenile court where, he remembers, the magistrate told him that while he wasn't a bad boy he might get to be one if he kept playing around Perdido Street at night. Louis was packed off to ihe Colored Waif...
Shep Brown will compete in the 50 yard, 400-yard relay, and 100-yard freestyle events, with Mort Hull entered in the 50, and Bob Berke in the 100. These three men and Bill MacVicar make up the starting quartet in the freestyle relay...
...freshmen will get the jump on spring term social activities Saturday with a "Cupid's Caper" dance. Valentine's Day provides the motif for the weekend festivities and an excuse to crown a "Valentine Queen of the Dance." Four '52 men who organized themselves into a barbershop quartet for the Yale dance will perform again Saturday...
...South Mountain, near Pittsfield. To them she brought the most capable and renowned musicians in the world. The names of Hugo Kortschak, Willem Willeke, Jacques Gordon, Rudolf Kolisch, William Kroll, Albert Spalding, Myra Hess, and hosts of others appear on these programs. In these years she organized the Berkshire Quartet, the Coolidge Quartet, and the Elshuco Trio. She inaugurated in 1921 the Coolidge Prize for chamber music compositions and began commissioning works by contemporary composers. The list of those she has helped in this way, who have dedicated their works to her, contains virtually every name in modern music. Stravinsky...