Word: flautists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...them, but either way one finds Rousseau's image pasted permanently to the back of one's brainpan. Those serpents keep on slithering through the jungle of one's own nerve endings, while that level flute pours silence drawn from striped pools. Gilbert Stuart's Flautist is a man cut off from that silence, from wife and children, village, home. He sits soulnaked, haltered in other men's finery. Stuart, the master ironist who gave us a grandmotherly George Washington, here portrays a burnt-cork-face minstrel in reverse. This is a handsome black musician...
Such talk rings nicely in the musicians' ears ("We like to come to work now," says a flautist), but even with all the enthusiasm Krips has generated in San Francisco, he is making a late start at building a minor orchestra into a major one; at 61, he already has 42 years on the podium behind him. But in this, as in all matters, Krips is a mountain of good-humored assurance. "I am," he says fondly, "a builder...