Word: quartetting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fabulous painting which scandalized the '80s was seen in public last week for the first time since 1901. In Manhattan's Durand-Ruel Galleries visitors could look upon Adolphe William Bouguereau's nearly 12-ft. masterpiece, Nymphs and Satyr. A quartet of ripe, naked maidens prancing around a preoccupied faun was for 24 years the despair of Victorian moralists and the delight of the clubmen who crowded Manhattan's Hoffman House...
...last week's birthday concert, six surviving leaguers had written special compositions. They were performed by such topflight artists as Soprano Marjorie Lawrence and the Budapest Quartet. The small audience politely applauded the work of Boston-born Walter Piston (Quintet for Flute and Strings), Brooklyn-born Aaron Copland (Birthday Piece, On Cuban Themes For Two Pianos), French-born Darius Milhaud (string quartet), California-born Frederick Jacobi (songs about the prophet Nehemiah), Czech-born Bohuslav Martinu (Trio for Flute, Violin and Piano). Hit of the evening came at the program's close with Russian-born Louis Gruenberg...
Over 300 members are expected to attend a dinner which will be followed by a special program planned by the committee. Several skits will be presented, accompanied by group singing and a quartet...
Mozart: Quintet in G Minor, K. 516 (Budapest Quartet with M. Katims, viola; Columbia; 8 sides). A fine ensemble continues working the richest musical seams...
...West Point a newsphotographer got four formidably newsworthy names into one neat package by rounding up a quartet of young cadets, posing them trim and scrubbed before a map of Africa...