the cardinal number that is the sum of five and one
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six performers or singers who perform together
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a set of six similar things considered as a unit
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six people considered as a unit
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Sextet \Sex*tet"\, Sextetto \Sex*tet"to\, n. (Mus.) See {Sestet}.
By then a sizeable fraction of the audience had gone. The Sterndale Bennett sextet, with a graceful introduction from his great-great-grandson Barry, seemed a well-schooled piece of real talent.
Dinna Bjorn, illustrious Bournonville expert, has made a clever version of the sextet and tarantella from last act of Napoli. Eight dancers work like demons.
He gained star status in Europe, especially France, when in 1950 he toured with Goodman's sextet.
This compact disc exhibits the bulk of the latter's chamber works for winds: the big-boned sextet; sometimes similar sounding sonatas for clarinet, flute and oboe; and the captivating trio for oboe, bassoon and piano.
Places that really don't get to see us that often, little towns you know," says Michael Hutchence, lead singer of the sextet.
The sextet from Donizetti's Lucia preceded the interval; but it was effaced by the great fugue from Falstaff, which brought together all the evening's soloists: Margaret Price as Alice, Della Jones as Meg, and so on.
I loved the sextet from Napoli, done with southern vivacity, and was charmed by Sandrine Henault's exquisite feet in the Flower Festival in Genzano duet: every step was diamond-cut.
Now Clegg's back with a new sextet, Savuka, and an ebullient album of Afro-bop, "Third World Child" (Capitol).
The Act 3 sextet when Figaro learns the identity of his mother and father (Mozart's own favourite comic moment) was drawn out at tedious length.
An electric harpsichord and string sextet slogged through the score.