Word: sextet
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...annual meeting of the New York Conference of the Methodist Church in Bridgeport last month, Tenor Saxophonist Ed Summerlin, with sextet and chorus, presented the first performance of a new Liturgy of the Holy Spirit, with words by Poet William Robert Miller. Based vaguely on a Christian service described by the 2nd century theologian Hippolytus, the eclectic 14-part liturgy included jazz anthems in fairly conventional "cool" style, ballad-like congregational hymns reminiscent of Kurt Weill, choral passages as modal as a 14th century Mass. Florida-born Ed Summerlin began writing jazz for use in churches six years ago, when...
Harris had to overcome the usual problem of a Harvard freshmen coach--how to make 21 individuals, many of them high school stars, into a unified team. often experimented during the first half of the season in an effort to find the best working sextet...
...ruggedness was particularly useful to this season's sextet, which was other wise to small that just about any other team in the East could shove it around. He spent 70 minutes in the penalty box, almost twice as long as anyone else on the team, but he intimidated many opposing forwards in the process...
...Harvard sextet winds up its season tonight at Yale, it will have the chance to tack two rather negative achievement onto a season which the statistics indicate has been equally negative...
...Lovers' scenario might have been the banal tale of any tryst set to a Brahms sextet. A provincial housewife grows bored with her lot, takes a pointless, guarded fling at the pleasures of Paris, meets an appealing man and abandons herself to him. Malle decided to be both mystic and realistic, to try to film both the passion and the poetry of love. The resulting sequence is by now duly celebrated in the annals of film. It follows the lovers from bedroom to bath tub and back to bed again, missing very little, zeroing in on Moreau...