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...weeks ago, the Red and Blue upset perennial power Cornell, pulling out a 3-2 shocker in overtime. Before that, the Penn sextet stunned a heavily-favored squad from the University of New Hampshire, 6-4, and nailed St. Lawrence by a 6-3 count. But since the Cornell victory, three losses in four league games have severely damaged Quaker hopes for an ECAC playoff berth...

Author: By Thomas Aronson, | Title: Harvard Six Faces Slumping Quakers | 2/14/1975 | See Source »

...Dilettanti Nuovi, a Renaissance vocal sextet...

Author: By Jim Gleick, | Title: Classical | 12/5/1974 | See Source »

...Dilettanti Nuovi, vocal sextet. Music of the Renaissance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Classical | 10/31/1974 | See Source »

...case, the sextet navigated Gesualdo's twisting harmonies with usually precise intonation. The pitch problems that did crop up from time to time were invariably failures of individual singers to sustain difficult lines. Unfortunately, the sacred motets that opened the program suffered from exactly this type of difficulty, as did William Byrd's Mass for five voices. With only a single voice for each elaborate contrapuntal line, I Dilettanti were simply unable to maintain the warm blended tone they brought to the simpler, chordal passages...

Author: By James Gleick, | Title: Ineluctable Modality | 5/6/1974 | See Source »

...Dillettanti Nuovi, Renaissance vocal sextet. Free. Monday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MUSIC | 5/2/1974 | See Source »

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