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Lightning arpeggios bounce from clarinet to oboe. A perfectly articulated trill decorates a French horn solo. The musicianship is impeccable. But technics aside, the Dorian Quintet-the world's most active wind quintet-has several exceptional features: a completely booked calendar (75 concerts in 1973), a nearly six-figure collective income and an ample inventory of music to play...
Music to play? "Yes," sighs Jane Taylor, the Dorian bassoonist, "I've seen other wind quintets disband simply because they've run out of things to play." The Dorian's solution to the scanty quintet repertory has been virtually to create a new one. In its agile, luminous concert at Manhattan's Lincoln Center last week, the group played 19th Century Czech Composer Anton Reicha's forgotten E-Flat-Major Quintet, Henry Brant's transcription of Bach's Goldberg Variations and a new work that it commissioned from Pulitzer Prize Composer Jacob Druckman...
Junior guard Joe Carballeira, a transfer from Fordham, and defensive standout Doug Downey, a "walk-on" player last year, round out the Holy Cross quintet...
Sanders' starting quintet of Tony Jenkins, Lou Silver, Arnie Needleman, Mike Griffin and Ken Wolfe gave him a first half full of the fundamentals he likes to see--stinging defense and tight ball control. And his Crimson jealously guarded a 40-35 lead with 14:24 left in the game...
...hold the festival in places like the Sheep Meadow and Fenway Park. All that considered, this year's local festival shapes up well indeed. The key evening is Saturday, because Stevie Wonder and B.B. King more or less top a bill of giants: Mingus, trumpeter Freddie Hubbard and his Quintet, Rahsaan Roland Kirk and the Vibration Society, and mellow man Donny Hathaway. The problem of course is Fenway Park, cozy for baseball, but cavernous for jazz. I saw McCarthy there in '68 and the sound was rotten. This is 1973 though, and when Led Zep can fill Kezar Stadium...