Word: quintet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kennedy Center prize. Earlier this month in Santa Fe, two new Harbison works got their first performances. Mottetti di Montale is a darkly elegiac, 50-minute song cycle based on po ems by Eugenio Montale, the Italian poet who won the 1975 Nobel Prize for Literature. The Piano Quintet is a spare and acerbic five-movement work commissioned by the festival and dedicated to Artist Georgia O'Keeffe...
This year a quintet of newcomers showed off a variety of styles. From the deep end of a swimming pool to the electronic headache of synthesizer music, dancers writhed, swam, ran and lifted above and well beyond the ordinary. The curtain was pulled back on the future of dance, and the revelation was loud, sometimes disturbing and curiously clinical...
...season. The men's basketball squad's 16-10 season ranks high on the list, if only because the record contrasts sharply with the aura of pusillanimity that has followed the hoopsters in recent--and not so recent--seasons. The old and the new mixed effectively for the Crimson quintet, with senior co-captains Mark Harris and Tom Mannix leading a relatively young squad...
Like a Soviet armored division trundling across the Polish border, a battalion of Midshipmen jumped all over a quintet of Crimson pitchers, piling up 17 hits to dump the Crimson in the Eastern League opener, 14-7 and blast the Harvard nine out of Annapolis...
...noticed when Larry Brown--then with the Denver Nuggets--coached against his brother Herb before he got canned as coach of the Detroit Pistons, you'll love it when new UMass head basketball coach TOM McLAUGHLIN brings his charges to Cambridge to take on brother FRANK's Harvard quintet next December 15. The Harvard coach said he was pleased about his brother's new position, but added, "I think it's being overplayed. It's the players that play." Frank continued. "We never really competed, he never played on the same team, he was always a couple years behind...