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Harvard's chances for the Ivy League basketball crown went down the drain Saturday night when it was upset by an inspired Brown quintet...
...pure melodrama. After listening to Bernstein's brief run-through, the students tried again, and now they brought the piece to life. Satisfied, the visiting professor dropped back to his seat on the floor, extracted a cigarette from a leather case, and listened to a student wind quintet attack Irving Fine's Partita. Halfway through the first movement, Bernstein leaped to his feet again. "Tune up!" he cried. "My God, tune up!" While the musicians trembled, he went on: "This piece is whimsical. It's full of surprises. It should be played with energy and bounce." When...
ELIOT HOUSE LIBRARY. Consequences of the Franco-Prussian War, a woodwind quintet, 8 p.m., Dec. 1. Baroque Recital, flute, harpsichord and gamba...
...what might have been called the super-calisthenicization of his choreography. Yet Hawkins frequently attained a timeless mood in such Oriental-flavored works as Dawn Dazzled Door. The psuedo-Apollonian Angels of the Inmost Heaven featured a quartet of beauties who appeared topless to the accompaniment of a quintet of brass. Although Hawkins deployed the girls with such ritualistic restraint that the effect was almost asexual, the work succeeded in one kind of choreography that few other companies in the marathon have mastered: the concerted movement of large numbers of people past the box office and into the auditorium...
Some of the new works featured saxophone solos played against taped backgrounds of spoken dialogue, birdcalls or bursts of electronic light and shadow. The Robert Sibbing Quintet of Macomb, Ill., even turned up with a complete Mozart string quintet transcribed for the sax. French Virtuoso Jean-Marie Londeix wailed into some high, American-style leaps during the premiere of Fellow Countryman Guy Lacour's Hommage à Jacques Ibert, thereby precipitating excited talk of a possible fusion between the French school of playing (bright, full tone, strict adherence to the instrument's normal 2½-octave range...