Word: flute
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bernardino publisher (James A. Guthrie), James Kelley Guthrie early took lessons on the flute, "not because I was particularly interested in it but because it was expected of me." A trip to San Francisco, where he heard Hertz lead the Symphony Orchestra, fanned his interest. At 15 he rounded up 60 professional, amateur and retired musicians, hired 30 more from Los Angeles, to make the San Bernardino Community Orchestra. Two years later he began to lead it. Meantime he was in demand for local theatre orchestras, went on tour playing and conducting for Actress Olga Baclanova. In 1931 he entered...
...took refuge in a trapper's cabin which became so flooded that he had to hold his arms over his head to protect his portfolio. In the midst of his discomfort the storm ended, and he suddenly heard a wood thrush, "a song of a few clear, mellow, flute-like notes falling in gentle cadences." As he listened he thought that no song could be "so gentle in its last, almost inaudible phrases." He gave up painting portraits of human beings. "After this,'' said he, "I shall follow only the birds of America...
Thirty men have been provisionally accepted in the tryouts just completed by the Pierian Sodality of 1818. Flute players led the list of candidates with many more men than could be accepted but the orchestra considered itself lucky in having four candidates for the viola and two for the oboe...
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...Ravel's "Daphnis and Chloe" (second suite). The concert will close with Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. Members of the orchestra under Dr. Koussevitzky will give a program of eighteenth century music at four o'clock tomorrow afternoon in Sanders Theatre. Bach's Suite No. 2 in B minor for Flute and Strings, Haydn's Symphony in G major, No. 88, and Mozart's Symphony in E flat (K.No. 543) compose the program...