Word: sextet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...smoky Manhattan bop-house called Birdland, a crowd of jazz fans gathered to hear a leisurely instrumental sextet skim through a performance that was neither Dixieland, swing, nor bebop. Not even a confirmed boppist could find a melodic phrase to sing "Ooble-dee-ah-de-coo" with, as the practice is nowadays; there was not even so much as a "Man, that's cool!"* Passionate disciples of blind Pianist-Composer-Theorist Lennie Tristano, 32, are much too conservative for such crudities...
...more than write: Phyllis Pinkerton, 26, who came from Wisconsin to study with Lennie. When she inherited $10,000 recently, she invested it in Tristano, who rented a loft over an old garage, soundproofed the walls, installed recording equipment and a piano. There Tristano and members of his sextet teach some 35 pupils, will soon begin recording on their own label...
When he was 16, Vienna-born Arnold Schoenberg decided to become a professional musician. Nine years later, in 1899, he completed a string sextet, Transfigured Night, a melodic, romantic piece, which was to be one of his few works familiar to concertgoers. Critics applauded the newcomer...
...White played so well in those last eight games five of them Pentagonal League contests--that he was named first-string defenseman on the all-League team, and, quite appropriately, the circuit's most improved player. In addition, he won a second-string position on the all-New England sextet...
...nine man Branford College hockey squad outskated the Dudley sextet, 4 to 1. Saturday at the Boston Skating Club to win the Harvard-Yale intramural title. Dudley, 17-men strong, seemed slow and listless compared to the Bulldogs...