Word: quintet
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...quintet reciprocated by singing the "Star Spangled Banner" to a slow piano accompaniment in five somewhat off-key parts. As they left, the quintet were given water-colors, silver key-rings, and diaries made in the school shop...
...schools the quintet received effusive introductions and baskets of flowers--either real or plastic. But the response to the music was even warmer than the introductions...
...format of all five school concerts resembled the one at the girls' school. Demonstrations of the instruments--most of which the students had not seen before--took up a quarter of each program. The demonstrations included brief talks in Spanish by quintet members...
...school and university concerts were more unconventionally rewarding. After the quintet's performance at a boys' high school, a tall wiry cheerleader bounded on stage to lead a lusty, "Rah-rah-rah Harvard." Then the boys sang the Mexican National Anthem...
Besides playing at the girls' school, the quintet gave concerts at four other high schools, at the University of Mexico, and at the Cultural Institute Building. The Institute concert drew a noisy, warm, formal audience and received good notices in the Mexico City press...