Word: trios
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...direction with capable performances, although one or two of them seem a little uncertain of their lines. But there is nothing unsure about the acting of Ray Duffy, who plays the leader of the thieves. He makes an altogether likeable yegg. Herb Adams, the second member of the trio, tends to overplay his part of a professional seducer and becomes a bit too arch at moments, though this fault does not damage his portrayal much...
...Albeneri Trio plans the "Archduke" Trio by Beethoven, and Hayden and Ravel in Sanders Sunday afternoon...
...thought it precocious that "Wolferl" at the age of three should "bawl with disappointment" when his small fingers struck a discord on the clavier. At four, Wolferl scribbled down his first clavier concerto; at five, before he had had a single violin lesson, he played second fiddle in a trio. "One need not have learnt in order to play second fiddle," he informed the grownups...
...outcast street figures raise their voices in a dream of fair Dublin, there is a sudden sense of a city's voice upraised. But things seem oftener picturesque than intense, and windy rather than Aeolian. The finest moments have the comic smack and grizzle of Juno. A trio of codgers snort and wrangle gloriously, and go right on snorting and wrangling while they crouch on the floor to avoid what may crash through the windows. When one old boy claims St. Patrick for a Protestant, when another argues evolution, because monkeys, like men, are fond of beer, everything starts...
...glowing sextet is a veritable textbook of almost endless varieties of string texture. For example, the Andante often uses the violas and 'cellos as a dark quartet; the Scherzo utilizes the six instruments in three pairs; and the Finale exploits the colors of a high and a low trio. All six instruments together produce a sumptuous texture that is unique...