Word: sextets
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...from a canorous finch to a detestitute soldier sings on the ride from Venice to Padua, and an extraordinary passenger list it must have been to supply twenty madrigals on a thirty mile trip. Even more extraordinary was the representation that the two women and four men in the sextet gave of characters in the boat. As Venetian fishermen, they echoed each other with subtle dynamic control. Director and basso Piero Cavalli led one texture smoothly into another. A Madrigale afettuoso, a bit too obvious in intent to touch the modern listener properly, followed fine contrapuntal fun on simple scale...
...Comedian Mark Russell tells his audiences about the movie version of The Conscience of a Conservative: "It's going to be a silent, sponsored by Pierce-Arrow." Then, of course, there's the John Birch Society. And at Manhattan's Upstairs at the Downstairs, a Birch sextet nightly sings a sort of battle hymn of the reactionaries, with verses like...
With hardly an anxious moment, the varsity hockey team chopped down a skimpy Brown sextet 5 to 1 last night at Watson Rink and moved into a tie for second place in the Ivy League...
...upset by the Big Red has fully awakened the sextet from its exam-period slumber, then the defeat can possibly be excused. In tonight's game against Boston College, however, the team cannot allow itself any such lapses...
...other hockey play on Saturday, the Crimson J.V. team scored its ninth straight win, by shuting out Rutgers, 8 to 0. The freshman sextet edged the Dartmouth yearlings 2 to 1 in overtime. The freshmen meet Boston University in the preliminary game tonight. Plenty of tickets will be available at the Arena