Word: trios
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Music Clubs prize for a string quartet. In 1953, Ramiro switched to the University of Southern California, the next semester won a tuition scholarship, the Harvey Gaul Prize, Philadelphia's Eurydice Chorus award and a $500 BMI (Broadcast Music, Inc.) prize for a woodwind trio. He also set to work on an orchestral piece called Sinfonia Sacra, submitted it to the annual George Gershwin Memorial Contest. The judges: Conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos, Musicologist Carleton Sprague Smith, Composers Aaron Copland, Morton Gould and Peter Mennin...
...long and the marchers many. First came the viruses, then the rats, monkeys, the test tube cultures, and finally the pure strain from Brunhilde the chimpanzee. Brunhilde's type of infantile paralysis marched along with Lansing's and Leon's. The Mahoney virus replaced Brunhilde's and the trio of Mahoney, Lansing, and Leon, or simply Types One, Two, and Three grew in kidney tissure cultures, died in formaldehyde baths, and entered blood streams as the Salk polio vaccine...
...Salk and his colleagues at the University of Pittsburgh have earned the right to lead the parade, which started to move when the Harvard trio of Enders, Weller, and Robbins found a non-nervous tissue in which the viruses could grow. But the other marchers at universities, foundations, hospitals and laboratories throughout the world have also merited a place in the ranks. They, along with the people who donated "dimes and dollars," have accomplished a miracle with ten million dollars--the price of ten jet planes...
...liquid above the fanciful riffs of his sidemen, and he seemed to have settled comfortably into a style that had its roots in his own past, with a few overtones of more "progressive" jazz. At the piano was Teddy Wilson, who starred in Goodman's first, well-remembered trio, and most of the tunes came from the same period: Body and Soul, Memories of Yon, One O'Clock Jump, etc. If things continue as well, Goodman hopes to take his "all-stars" on a tour of Europe next fall...
...medley relay went to the Grays trio of Frank Hamm, Jim Scanion and Jan Mares. A Matthews North team anchored by Zemo triumphed in the 200-yard freestyle relay...