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Gurney, a chronicler of gentility and Waspishness in such dapper plays as The Dining Room, The Middle Ages and Love Letters, would seem just the fellow for the job. And his sextet of reliable actors -- John Cunningham, Jack Gilpin, Julie Hagerty, Mary Beth Peil, Robert Stanton and Jennifer Van Dyck -- shifts from one role to another as smartly as commuters leaping from the Stamford express to the Cos Cob local. But as directed by Playwrights boss Don Scardino, the evening is a failure. It ransacks the canon for easy laughs and outbursts. With only a few minutes devoted to each...
...someone wanted to take a snapshot of the contemporary jazz scene, he could do no better than to click on the James Williams Sextet's performance last Friday night. All the elements that constitute a great jazz concert were there: three generations of excellent horn players, a tight, driving rhythm section, good choice of materia, and a talented and charismatic gig leader to shine before a responsive crowd. The performance at Scullers Jazz Club at the Guest Quarter's Suite Hotel was a solid, fulfilling set of mainstream jazz...
This week sees the release of Sinatra and Sextet: Live in Paris, a time trip to a swinging 1962 show taken from recently discovered master tapes. Also in the works for 1994 is a sequel to Duets, and though his singing partners have yet to be confirmed, prospects range from Axl Rose to Luciano Pavarotti...
...Fenice--a capella sextet performs the works of Ravel, Poulenc, Mihaud, Hindemith, and other. Church of the Redeemer, 379 Hammond St, Chestnut Hill. Thursday, Feb. 27, 8 p.m. $9;$6 for students and seniors...
...like the competition between the two New York Giants quarterbacks, members of Harvard's sextet claim that every-one gets along just fine, thanks...