Word: sextet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pity was the best the Quakers could expect from the sparse crowd at the Watson Rink. Playing in their first Ivy League game ever, the Penn sextet was inept in every imaginable department...
...Harvard sextet, which beat Princeton 5-3 in its Ivy opener Wednesday, will be battling for the early League lead...
...rest of the "mechanicals," only Tom Aldridge's Quince emerges as a fully formed character. And when he delivers the prologue before the Pyramus playet, he has a grand time with the alliterative avalanche of b's. The other cronies are passable. The whole sextet of artisans is just no match for their counterparts in the 1958 production: Morris Carnovsky, Hiram Sherman, Ellis Rabb, William Hickey, Will Geer, and Severn Darden...
...couples stopped dancing and edged forward, still bobbing and clapping in rhythm. On the bandstand, his lips puckered into a smile around the mouthpiece and his thick eyebrows arched above horn-rims, Benny Goodman raised his wailing clarinet over the listeners' heads and set the pace for his sextet's jet-propelled delivery of Air Mail Special...
...doing graduate work in ethnomusicology at U.C.L.A. in 1962 that Ellis grasped the jazz potential of the complex, repeated beat cycles underlying Asian and Middle Eastern music. With Indian Sitar Player Hari Har Rao, then a member of the U.C.L.A. music faculty, he formed the Hindustani Jazz Sextet to explore musical passages to India; two years ago, he launched his big band...