Word: quartetting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Last Sunday's program was probably the best so far in the current season of Sanders Theatre Concerts, at least from the standpoint of technical perfection. Georges Laurent demonstrated his marvelous precision and control of the flute by playing three difficult virtuoso numbers in succession. The Mozart quartet, K. 285 and the Roussel Serenade, Op 30 were played in combination with a small string ensemble; the Three Pieces by Walter Piston was a woodwind trio,--flute, clarinet, and bassoon. This composition, one of Piston's earliest, has a humorous grotesqueness and vitality apparently much appreciated by the Cambridge audience...
...second half of the program was the long and complex Beethoven Septet, consisting of a string quartet with three wind instruments added, which was performed with a perfect balance and dynamics hard to attain in so large a group without a director. I venture to predict that so perfect a program will not be heard in Sanders Theatre until the last of the series on August 29, when Richard Burgin will conduct another small string ensemble...
...contribute to the show. If you, or your wife or sweetheart, etc. can sing, or play anything from the violin to the bazooka, or if you are an amateur magician, please see Major Fay or Ensign Bailey. Here's a chance for somebody to work up a good barbershop quartet. If you're interested, even if you're looking for the other three members, let us know...
...acts were varied and pleasing. After a "gay" muster, the program got under way with several numbers (loudly applauded) by the Company Baker Quartet. Mr. McMann presented the first "Serious Reading" and incidentally one which proved to be both enlightening and entertained. It is most distressing but word is out that the British (Blank, Blank) System has been comprised...
...quartet, East Coker, there are disguised quotes from the 16th-Century Sir Thomas Elyot and from St. John of the Cross; but each is linked by appropiate transitions with what goes before and after, so that readers unacquainted with these not-widely-read authors will not be conscious of missing anything...