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sextet

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Alt. of Sextetto

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Following the minor chart success of "Rainbow Chaser", "live appearances became increasingly rare" and the songwriting duo at the core of Nirvana "decided to disband the sextet" and to rely on session musicians for future recordings. Source: Internet

Early career In 1936, he returned with his family to Mar del Plata, where he began to play in a variety of tango orchestras and around this time he discovered the music of Elvino Vardaro ’s sextet on the radio. Source: Internet

In a season one episode of The Flintstones entitled "The Split Personality", Fred's alter ego Frederick (also voiced by Alan Reed ) performs the sextet by himself quite poorly. Source: Internet

Other examples are Offenbach 's cello duets, quartet, and sextet, Pärt 's Fratres for 8 cellos and Boulez ' Messagesquisse for 7 cellos, or even Villa-Lobos' rarely played Fantasia Concertante (1958) for 32 cellos. Source: Internet

Bartolo, overcome with emotion, agrees to marry Marcellina that evening in a double wedding (sextet: Riconosci in questo amplesso – "Recognize in this embrace"). Source: Internet

In October of that year, jazz critic Ira Gitler coined the term " sheets of sound " to describe the style Coltrane developed during his stint with Monk and was perfecting in Davis' group, now a sextet. Source: Internet

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