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...quintet faces a 26-game schedule, including a special Dartmouth tournament. They are now working toward the December 5 opener against highly-rated Boston University, "our most difficult opener in recent years," according to Shepard...
...concert by the Philadelphia Woodwind Quintet yesterday afternoon inaugurated the Pierian Sodality's 1953-54 Sunday Concert Series. The Quintet is composed of members of the Philadelphia Orchestra; four of them are the solo players in their respective sections. This ensemble represents a tradition which is one of the most significant and unique features of the contemporary musical scene. Perhaps the central innovation of the modern virtuoso orchestra is the phenomenally increased importance of the woodwinds. Certain mechanical improvements in some of the woodwinds during the past century have helped to bring about this movement; more important, the new spectrum...
...woodwind quintet form, however, no matter how perfectly achieved by these men from Philadelphia, can never even approach the chamber music ideal of the string quartet. For one thing, these five woodwind instruments which have somehow found a place in the modern orchestra after centuries of experimentation and sifting have not that tonal and technical uniformity which is the raison d'etre of the string quartet. Of course it may be answered that a woodwind quintet can aim at quite a different and equally valid ideal. Unfortunately, composers have not yet shown what this might be. The two classical works...
Abandoning the quintet medium bristly, three of the musicians performed Walter Piston's Trio for flute, clarinet, and has soon. This is an excellent work and shows that a composer who understands woodwinds as well as Professor Piston can attain a greater subtlety and variety of effects from three instruments than, for example, Persichetti could from five in the Pastoral which was performed immediately before the Piston work. One of the most interesting features of the Trio is its experimentation with the colors which can be attained by fast and soft figurations in the flute and clarinet with the bassoon...
...U.S.A. (Tues. & Thurs., 7:45 p.m., CBS-TV) is filled with danceable music and pretty girls. Using scarcely a line of dialogue, the show features Crooner Mel Torme and Teresa Brewer, a topnotch singer with a voice somewhere between a blowtorch and a cello. Also on hand: the Honeydreamers quintet, and a trio of dancers cavorting at different U.S. vacation spots each week. The Thursday commercials, plugging General Electric, are unobjectionable...