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Gunther Schuller: Music for Brass Quintet and Fantasy Quartet for Four Celli (Composers Recordings Inc.). Composer Schuller, a onetime first-chair hornist for the Metropolitan Opera, explores the potential of brasses in a fragmented Quintet that is by turns haunted, anguished or raucously jeering. The fine Fantasy Quartet, with its dynamic rhythms and attenuated lines, finds the composer in a less ruffled but consistently moving frame of mind...
...HAVEN, March 3--Harvard played tough basketball during the first half, but couldn't keep the fast-breaking Yale quintet and irrepressible Bill Madden under control in the concluding period of tonight's game. When time graciously ran out, the Ivy Champions had achieved an 82-65 triumph in the regular season's final game...
Brown lunged for the lead at 13:34 of the second half, when Young scored on a fast break and subsequent free throw. That made it a 38-38 tie; Harvard took a time out to get organized; and the local fans began to cheer the Bruin quintet on. Borchard put the Crimson momentarily back in the lead, but a minute later came the fast break led by Cingiser, whose 19 points moved him to within 44 points of Brown's all-time record (with two games...
After college, Evans gigged around, suffered through three unhappy years in the army, only began to win polls and influence people in 1958, when he spent almost a year with the Miles Davis Quintet...
Before last night's game, Harvard basketball figures had a beautiful symmetry. The Crimson was 10-10 for the season, and both Harvard and its opponents had scored 1444 points. Princeton destroyed this statistical harmony last night with a 73-65 victory over the Crimson quintet...