Word: quartetting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...certainly not the best of a particular band or player's work. Almost every big band of today that ever recorded a riff is mentioned, and there are some reflections on the quality of big-band arrangements. You'll find even the Alec Wilder Octet and the Golden Gate Quartet, not usually welcomed into the jazz household, but the line had to be drawn somewhere, and the door slammed before Hazel Scott and Carmen Cavallaro...
Victor has just released Stokowski's excellent recording of Szostakowicz's sixth symphony, and Columbia has recorded his quintet for piano and strings with the Stuyvesant Quartet and a Miss Vivian Rivkin. I haven't been able to hear the quintet, but I was very much impressed by the sixth. I don't think it will rank as high as the fifth in the long run, but there is a lot of good stuff in it, especially the sombre and leisurely first movement which is the kind of drawn-out thematic development which he does to perfection in the first...
...spite of stiff competition from 13 other colleges, a barber shop quartet of skiers from the Outing Club scored a stunning upset yesterday morning when it captured second place in the annual Intercollegiate Outing Club Association race down the Little Dipper Trail on Moosilauke Mt., trailing the Dartmouth Outing Club...
...Bulldog was unfortunate in the mile relay when sprinter Bud Talbott, running lead-off man, pulled on the first lap as he was chasing Larry Carbett, and no the Harvard quartet, including Corbett Ellis, McKechnie, and Slingerland ran to a mechanical victory...
...this was spiritedly portrayed to lush music, plentifully sprinkled with 19th-Century devices-arias, duets, a quartet, a drinking song, a ballet, choruses...