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Grapelli and Reinhardt formed the quintet for Le Hot Club in 1934. Grapelli had just begun to make a name for himself as a solo musician. Django was already famous throughout Europe. A gypsy by birth, Django was the first great jazz guitarist. He revolutionized guitar technique. He had lost two left-hand fingers early in his life. This handicap led him to invent new ways of playing and resulted in new sounds, new progressions, and new rhythms. Grapelli's swinging, raggy violin worked well with Reinhardt's rhythmic guitar style. The two were a smash hit throughout Europe. They...
...didn't play well--we were bumping into each other, our rebounding was poor, and we didn't go back door when they left it wide open," said a disappointed coach Carole Kleinfelder after her Crimson quintet had merely annihilated visiting Southeastern Massachusetts University (SMU) with a 34-19 second-half assault...
What you will see is bodily grace, harmonious proportions and a quintet of hoopsters from Harvard who embody the ideal aims of athletics--recreation, enjoyment and the Classical conception of a sound mind in a sound body...
...Faculty Concert on Monday, January 16, featuring sonatas of Mozart, Brahms and Beethoven. "Music for Viennese Fortepiano," on Friday, January 20, includes Mozart's Piano Sonata K. 281 and Beethoven's Sonata in C sharp minor Op. 27, no. 2. In a more modern vein, the New England Woodwind Quintet performs works of Villa-Lobos, Barber and Janacek, as well as Haydn, on Wednesday, January 25, at Longy. The Cambridge Chamber Players features guest violinst Joseph Silverstein and guest pianist Andrew Wolf on January 27. This should be a very worth-while concert, and includes Ravel's Trio...
Wednesday, January 25: Concert: New England Woodwind Quintet...