Word: quartetting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sabrinas this season found themselves with practically all of their front line and a full quartet of backs from the disappointing 1939 eleven gone via the sheepskin route. Nine lettermen were on hand, four of whom were linemen. Captain and tackle Wyatt Smythe, brother of end Bill Smythe, and guards Pete Craft and Gene Hubbard, the latter of whom spent most of last season on the bench, are the returning lettermen...
...junior quartet of scampering Bob Blood, who raced away for a 20-yard touchdown jaunt against Hobart, Tom Mulroy, Obie Slingerland and Perry Sawyer is also available. Blood seems to have answered the Jeffs' kicking problem while Sweeny and Slingerland, the latter out of action all last year due to scholastic deficlencies, took care of the serial display. Mulroy, also forced to serve as bench ballast in '39 by injuries, seems destined to reach the peak predicted for him last year, turning in a brilliant bit of work against Hobart...
From 150 scores submitted, a committee headed by Composer Richard Donovan chose works by 36 composers for performance in the Yaddo music room. Best-known name on the programs was Oklahoma-born Roy Harris (TIME, April 8), who provided a fairly doughy set of preludes and fugues for string quartet. Quincy Porter's eight-minute quintet for flute and strings, based on A-Tisket, A-Tasket, was the brightest bit. Ross Lee Finney gave out Bletheris, a monody for voice and orchestra based upon a section of The Hamlet of A. MacLeish, which was spoiled because Mr. Finney sang...
With a larger stable than Decca's to look after, Columbia's Scout Satherly gets around more, operates on a more intense and personal basis. Once, says he, he closed a deal with the Norfolk Jubilee Quartet (Negro) by producing four gaudy scarves and neckties at a strategic moment. Some of his talent, like Blues Singers Bukka White and Buddy Moss, periodically land in jail, where Mr. Satherly does not care to make recordings. Popular Blind Boy Fuller, a lazy, not too bright North Carolina Negro, has been totally blind for 14 of his 32 years, totes...
...Dvorak: Quartet No. 6 in F Major (Budapest Quartet; Victor: 6 sides). One of the first composers to try to write typically U. S. music was Czech Anton Dvorak who lived in the U. S. from 1892 to 1895. Today Composer Dvorak's lively "American Quartet," though engagingly tuneful, sounds more like a Czech Dumka than a U. S. foxtrot. The Budapesters give it a finely tooled performance...