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...Interesting," said Blakey, tapping his toes. "But a total rip-off. That part in the beginning -- it's from A Night in Birdland, Vol. 1, by my own quintet. And then it flows into excerpts from Herbie Hancock's Cantaloupe Island...
Blodgett Chamber Music Series. The Mendelssohn String Quartet, Blodgett Artists in Residence, perform Mozart's String Quartet in D Major, K. 499, the world premiere of Augusta Read Thomas' String Quartet, and Brahms's Piano Quintet in f minor, Op. 34. Paine Hall, 8 p.m. Free...
Coach Warren Smith's pioneering Crimson quintet is made up of Boyle, co-captains Ann Schoofs and Madge Roberts, senior Christine Sadlowski and junior Emily...
...Boulevard or his chronic breaches of etiquette. Rather, says a friend, "Sam was the king of artistic seriouness," and the appetite for serious films -- dark and downbeat, reeking of alienation -- is not what it was. In 1993, would studios green-light Lumet's Equus, Allen's Interiors, Altman's Quintet or Nichols' Carnal Knowledge? Cohn was a power broker during the decade or two when every movie director was by definition an untouchable auteur. Nowadays even true auteurs such as Scorsese are kept on rather short leashes, indulged their expensive artistic visions not much beyond one or two failures...
...advent of compact-disc technology, which permitted Bryars to fashion a version twice as long -- and at least four times as ambitious. Beginning with a fade-in of the tramp's a cappella singing, it slowly builds and swells, with new instruments constantly added to a basic string quintet. Cellos and basses come and go; horns, trombones and contrabassoons add color; a full string orchestra emerges, along with a vocal choir. Finally, pop singer Tom Waits joins in, his raspy, passionate baritone contrasting with the old man's reedy tenor. Its long journey finished, the music slowly drifts away...