Word: quintet
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Dave's Place (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). A Garroway "at home" attended by Cliff Norton, Julie London, Joe Wilder's Jazz Group and the New York Woodwind Quintet, among others...
...HENRY CABOT LODGE, whose agile baritone voice often livens U.N. parties, displayed the most catholicity of taste by selecting Mozart's Clarinet Quintet K. 581, Handel's Messiah, Alexander's Ragtime Band, St. James Infirmary, and other Dixieland tunes as played by the Dukes of Dixieland. For good measure, Mrs. Lodge added her own preference, which is a long way from Whoopie I Oh!: Bach's Suite No. 3 in C Major for Unaccompanied Cello, performed by Pablo Casals...
...tossed an impressive challenge at Australia's confident women swimmers last week in the pretty form of five frolicking California teenagers. Gamboling around Indianapolis' huge Broad Ripple Pool like schoolgirls at summer camp, the youthful quintet laughingly struck kooky, cross-eyed poses for photographers, completely captivated the capacity crowd, and set A.A.U. officials rewriting the record books. In just three days at the Women's A.A.U. Swimming Championships, three world and ten American records were smashed, and tarnished U.S. aquatic prestige was suddenly enhanced...
...week for the National A.A.U. championships in Bakersfield, Calif. Boston University's 19-year-old John Thomas set a world high-jump record of 7 ft. 2 in., and his youthful buddies were as fine as expected. But the real drama of the meet was fashioned by a quintet of veteran stars who had won gold medals at the Melbourne Olympics in 1956. Competing with the kids for an invitation to the Olympic trials next week at Palo Alto, the five older men stole the show...
...began composing under French impressionist influence, became fascinated by Javanese music, and incorporated the Oriental influence in such five-and six-notescale works as In a Myrtle Shade and Wai Kiki. His talent, as shown in recordings of Notturno for Orchestra and Three Tone Pictures for Double Quintet and Piano, was for richly colored works with strangely shifting rhythms that convey an almost trancelike effect...