Word: trios
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This trio, with Jacques Brugnon, made up France's famed "Four Musketeers." They held the Davis Cup for six years until Great Britain's Fred Perry and Henry W. Austin won it in 1933 and held it, against all comers, until...
...cognoscenti gave their closest attention to the Festival Piano Quartet (a string trio and piano). Its players were famous "lone wolves of music," Pianist Clifford Curzon, Violinist Joseph Szigeti, Violist William Primrose, Cellist Pierre Fournier, and its founder was the late great Pianist Artur Schnabel. Like most serious musicians, the big-name soloists love to play chamber music; for the privilege of playing together, they agreed to accept fees far below their normal standard. Their performances of Brahms, Schubert and Fauré were brilliant. But few listeners outside of Edinburgh will have a chance to hear them: the quartet will...
...Benny Goodman Trio (Columbia LP). The King of Swing gets together for the first time in 13 years with Teddy Wilson and Gene Krupa to help out his old arranger, ailing Fletcher Henderson. The ensemble sounds surprisingly spry, playing such old favorites as Body and Soul, After You've Gone, Honeysuckle Rose...
...doors to the Cabinet room closed behind them. At noon, they came out to consult their advisers and have lunch. After lunch they went at it again. At 4:45 p.m., they had an agreement ready to sign, and Steelman came in to witness the signing. Then the trio went to Harry Truman's office. The President listened, called for the press. Like a snappish schoolteacher, he dictated: "Mr. Murray and Mr. Fairless have just advised me that six major steel companies and the United Steelworkers of America (C.I.O.) have reached agreement . . ." The steel strike was over...
...Married (20th Century-Fox) is a sort of comic sequel to A Letter to Three Wives, which showed how a rumor of infidelity affected a trio of young suburban matrons. The current picture shows the way five husbands and their wives react to the news that they are not legally married. An absent-minded justice of the peace (Victor Moore) had married them before his commission went legally into effect...