Word: sextet
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...Vermont. Into the box go requests for performances of everything from Mozart to Schoenberg; out of the box come twice-weekly concerts played in a converted cow barn by some of the world's most famed and gifted instrumentalists. Last week the barn echoed to Beethoven's Sextet in E-Flat, Martinu's Three Madrigals for Violin and Viola and Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 5. Occasion: a concert at Vermont's Marlboro Festival, now celebrating its tenth season...
...Strauss, especially of Rosenkavalier. Giannini did not shy away from penning a beautiful, lush love duet for each pair of lovers. The first act has a fugal trio that can take its place with the finale fugue in Verdi's Falstaff; and the third act has a masterly vocal sextet...
...Crimson must end that streak Saturday to retain any hope of winning the Ivy title, and the accompanying invitation to the NCAA Eastern playoffs in March. In fact, unless the sextet sweeps both ends of the home-and-home weekend series which concludes at Watson Rink Feb. 13, it will need help from another team to merely tie the Big Green. Such is the plight of Harvard hockey...
...meets a young archaeologist (Jean-Marc Bory), a chance guest in the house. He kisses her. Suddenly, deliriously, they understand that "this is the real thing''-or so the narrator says. Les amoureux then go back to her room, and with the sound track blaring Brahms (a sextet, naturally) and the camera calmly watching almost everything that happens, they make passionate and explicitly French love 1) in her bed, 2) in the bathtub, 3) back in bed again. Whereupon the wife, without a second's hesitation or a backward glance, walks out on her husband, her former...
...varsity hockey team humiliated Tufts to the tune of 10 to 2 last night in some reading period entertainment at Watson Rink. For the heavily favored Crimson, the final game before examinations was a repeat of last week's lopsided, unexciting contest against Norwich, which the sextet won by an identical score...