Word: trios
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...take. It was mostly what Hollywood calls "Mickey Mouse music," i.e., the tempo coinciding with movement and speech. The Partch orchestra produced cacophonous sounds sometimes reminiscent of a Hollywood sound track for a Chinese street scene, sometimes like a symphony orchestra tuning up, occasionally like a Hawaiian string trio, and once during the argument between the seer and Oedipus, the rat-a-tat-tat of one of the percussions over a loudspeaker sounded like mice in the attic. The best thing about Partch's music was that it seldom got in the way of the actors, who half-spoke...
Lionel Nowak's Trio for Clarinet, Violin, and Cello provided the evening's novelty. Nowak, who also teaches at Bennington, uses a lively semi-atonal style that is immediately appealing without being banal. The unique combination of instruments creates unusual timbre effects, and the performance (except for some excessive violin scraping) did the work full justice...
...trio of travelling Latin-Americans paid a visit to the University last weekend, and came away finding themselves "completely at home for the first time since we have been in America...
...Emerson and sprinter Dave Hedberg still managed to turn in pleasing performances. Emerson, besides swimming with the fourth-place medley relay trio in both the trial and final, tied for sixth in the qualifying rounds of the 100 yard breaststroke with Adelphi's Gary Kieler, and managed to edge Kieler by one foot in a swim-off. The Harvard junior then turned in a 63.8 time to take fifth place in the finals from Yale George McFaul...
...hypocrisy persists, to the detriment of both the Boston trio and the Ivy five. The Boston teams remain submerged in the New England League, a large, loose association containing Tufts, Bowdoin, M.I.T., Colby, and other teams hopelessly beneath them in ability. B.U. and B.C. have won the top two places without the slightest difficulty for years, with Northeastern their only league competition of significance...