Word: sextet
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When Victor Willis, lead singer of the Village People, spun himself off into a solo career, the thump-thump-thump that reverberates through Discoland, U.S.A., was suddenly muffled. After all, the flamboyant sextet is the ruling clan of that realm; they have sold some 9 million albums and made songs like Macho Man, Y.M.C.A. and In the Navy into nocturnal national anthems. Now the beat goes on, for a onetime back-up singer named Ray Simpson has been promoted to the group, joining Cowboy Randy Jones, Construction Worker David Hodo, Indian Felipe Rose, Motorcyclist Glenn Hughes and G.I. Alex Briley...
Shakespeare paid insufficient attention to King Alonso and his five lordly cronies--"that dismal sextet," Agate called them. The actors can do little but go through their plot-serving paces, though someone should have kept Theodore Sorel from going way out of vocal control in Alonso's "billows" speech. As old Gonzalo (a weak retread of Polonius in Hamlet), Daniel Benzali gets an unintended laugh from today's fuel-conscious audience when he outlines his ideal commonwealth as having "no use of...oil." And it is a nice touch, at the end of the play...
DIED. Alfred Deller, 67, self-trained English singer who revived the long-lost art of the countertenor, male singing in the alto range; of a heart attack; in Bologna, Italy. A burly, bearded figure whose womanish voice astounded unaccustomed audiences, the singer and his Deller Consort sextet won the enthusiastic bravos of listeners around the world for their live and recorded performances of medieval, Renaissance and baroque music...
Tony Lada Sextet--Berklee Performance Center, 1140 Boylston...
...powerful sextet propelled the Harvard women's swim team to a seventh-place ranking yesterday after the first day of competition in the National AIAW Swimming and Diving Championships in Gainsville...