Word: sextet
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...Crimson sextet struck twice more as each of the next two periods. Bowdoin's lone tally came in the final period...
...Crimson is slightly favored to beat the Polar Bears for the third time in three years. Some of the members of the Crimson sextet that blanked the Bears 3-0 last year anticipate a tough struggle against this hustling club...
...thetics (George Russell Sextet; Riverside). Exercises in introspection by six men whose style is occasionally so cool it congeals. In warmer moods, the soloists-particularly Don Ellis on a hoarsely tender trumpet-are first-rate, and the songs, with their lopsided choruses and barely articulated melodies, have their own tantalizing outer-worldly charm. Included: Russell's own Ezz-thetic and Lydiot, Thelonious Monk's 'Round Midnight...
Carnegie Hall Salutes Jack Benny (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). A tribute to the eminent violinist, taped last April. With Isaac Stern, Van Cliburn, Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra, Benny Goodman and his sextet, and Roberta Peters...
...Poulenc: Sextet for Piano & Woodwind Quintet (Frank Glazer, piano; the New York Woodwind Quintet; Concert-Disc). After 30 years, Poulenc's tart and witty notes still work surprisingly well. Many a composer might envy the piece's weakness: a manner sometimes too glib and an oversupply of ideas...