Word: sextet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Miles Davis Sextet, a well-established jazz combo that got a big hand and rated it. Trumpeter Miles Davis,* who years ago launched in New York what became known as "West Coast jazz," groups together some of jazzland's most gifted performers (Pianist Wynton Kelly, Alto Saxophonist Julian-"Cannonball"-Adderly, Drummer Jimmy Cobb, Bassist Paul Chambers, Tenor Saxophonist John Coltrane), has rehearsed them to play an original repertory (jazzed-up ballads in classic form) with the cohesiveness of a chamber music ensemble...
...rarely been seen outside since. Now in a complete recording (Angel, 3 LPs) for the first time, it proves to be one of Strauss's most fascinating works. Too static for the stage, it is studded with passages of surpassing orchestral and vocal beauty: the sweetly melancholy string sextet that serves as an overture; the delicately interlaced trio in which Musician, Poet and Countess comment on the Poet's sonnet; the Countess' hushed mirror monologue at the close, with its spun-silver vocal tracery. The performers-notably sopranos Elizabeth Schwarzkopf and Anna Moffo, baritones Hans Hotter...
...Freshman hockey team went down to its first Ivy League defeat of the season Saturday in New Haven, as the Yale sextet pulled out a 4-3 overtime victory. Although the Yardlings finished their campaign with a fine 18-3 overall record, the Bulldogs edged them in the unofficial Ivy standings with a 3-0 slate...
Jolted by two Eli goals in the first 48 seconds and one with 20 seconds remaining to play, the varsity sextet was tied, 5 to 5, by an inferior Yale team at New Haven's Ingalls Rink Saturday night in its last game of the season. With nothing at stake but Harvard's hockey supremacy, unchallenged since the 1951-52 season, the standoff was little better for the Crimson than a defeat...
Although the sextet gave the Tigers few real scoring opportunities during the first period, it played poorly, appearing tired from its heavy schedule. But Princeton's success was short-lived, as the varsity's passing and playmaking gathered polish in the final stanzas...