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Easy Does It! (Benny Goodman; Capitol, 6 sides). The lion of the licorice stick in some of the best of his more intimate work with the trio, quintet, sextet and septet. Includes Puttin' on the Ritz, Henderson Stomp, Makin' Whoopee...
Schoenberg: Serenade, Op. 24 (Dimitri Mitropoulos conducting a string and woodwind septet with baritone voice; Esoteric Records, 2 sides LP). Composed in 1923, this is one of the first works in which Schoenberg utilized his twelve-tone technique. After a few hearings, something listenable begins to emerge. Performance and recording: good...
...Colonel General Fedor Tolbnkhin, captor of Taganrog. A huge man with a heavy, calm, intelligent face, he is the septet's least-known member. One of five army chiefs who helped to trap Friedrich von Paulus, Tolbukhin this year jumped two grades within four months. Equally adept in the use of cavalry and tanks, he used both last month to punch holes in the German defenses in the south. Last week he stage-managed a "little Stalin-grad" at Taganrog...
...Brown varsity. The scores were 3-6, 7-5, and 6-1. Shore trimmed Ed Twarog, AST, 6-3, 6-4; Lynch overwhelmed G. C. Fuller, 6-0, 6-0; and Mann took over Robert E. Stokes 6-2, 6-2 to round out the septet...
...second half of the program was the long and complex Beethoven Septet, consisting of a string quartet with three wind instruments added, which was performed with a perfect balance and dynamics hard to attain in so large a group without a director. I venture to predict that so perfect a program will not be heard in Sanders Theatre until the last of the series on August 29, when Richard Burgin will conduct another small string ensemble...