Word: violas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Guess again. The blond (Joan Jeanrenaud) is a cellist by craft, and the longhair (Hank Dutt) plays, appropriately, the viola. Along with violinists David Harrington and John Sherba, they form the Kronos Quartet, the nation's most adventurous chamber-music ensemble. No Haydn or Mozart for this earnest foursome. Works by Charles Ives and Anton Webern are probably the creakiest items in their wide, of-today repertoire. It ranges from Steve Reich's Different Trains, in which synthesized voices, recorded railroad sounds and minimalist arpeggios are combined in a haunting memoir, to a growling, down- and-dirty setting of Jimi...
...Viola, the 1988 Cy Young Award winner with a 24-7 record, lost the shutout bid when the Red Sox made it 6-1 in the eighth on a one-out double by Wade Boggs and a two-out single by Ellis Burks...
...Viola struck out six and walked three before leaving after allowing a one-out double in the ninth to Dwight Evans...
German Gonzalez relieved Viola, but didn't last long. Gonzalez was greeted by a single by Nick Esasky, the first batter he faced, to make...
Staked to a first-inning lead when Boston starter Wes Gardner (1-3) had to leave the game with a sore elbow, Viola breezed in extending his mastery...