Word: septet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thanks to the devoted efforts of Claudio Spies, Instructor in Music, a Harvard audience heard the most recent manifestations of Igor Stravinsky's art-last Sunday evening in a Sanders Theatre concert. An instrumental Septet (1953), the Cantata (1952), and Three Songs from Shakespeare (1953) comprised the program. The quality of performance throughout was superb with the exception of William Hess' tenor; and its strained quality was probably attributable to a cold. Both Mr. Hess and mezzo-soprano Eunice Alberts mastered vocal parts of exceptional difficulty. The modulations of mood and expressiveness which Miss Alberts achieved were striking. The precision...
...concluding selection, Beethoven's Septet in E-Flat, represents its creator in his wittiest and most lyrical vein. While retaining features of the older divertimento (especially in the prominent violin part), it also looks forward to the work of later composers--Mendelssohn must have known the scherzo well. Despite a few lapses in intonation, the performers gave all the energy and sparkle the septet demands, and it brought an appropriately enthusiastic response from the audience...
...Powell Septet (Vanguard LP). A classical label gives jazz the hi-fi treatment, with first-rate results. Seven top jazzmen play as if for themselves, turn out some of today's finest group improvisations. Notable for a long (7 min.), brooding I Must Have That Man, featuring Buck Clayton's trumpet...
...operate an elevator. 2) Our basement contains a gorgeous swimming pool, though out of water since 1907. 3) We have seven pianos on the fifth floor which makes us the sponsors of the First Plane Septet, be to heard commercially next year. This is also testifies to the magnificent structural genius of the pilgrim architects who designed Claverly. 4) Each night we receive, gratis--through our windows, the currents offering of the Hasty Pudding. 5) We boast of the most imposing stairwell in Cambridge, central location, and a room personally decorated by William R. Hearst, Jr.--(a monstrosity, visiting hours...
French Horn Jazz, Vol. I (John Graas Septet; Trend EP). The symphony orchestra's most recalcitrant wind instrument finds its way into these four cool originals; here, muted and mumbling, it fits in pretty well...