Word: flute
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...effective is "The Ox-Cart Driver's Song" for soprano and piano, sung by Elsic Houston with plenty of barbaric yawp. The song is impressive even if you don't care for barbaric yawp; if you do, it's doubly powerful. The last selection in the album, "Quatuor" for flute, harp, celesta, and women's voices, is something of a disappointment. Written during a period of strong Debussy influence, it is overly imitative, and except for the delightful last movement lacks the imagination and freshness of the other pieces...
Helene Rains, 16, won the 300-yd. medley (breast stroke, backstroke, crawl) in 4 min., 4.9 sec. Besides swimming, Miss Rains, a Manhattan music student, plays the piano, clarinet, bassoon, oboe, flute and saxophone, studies tap, toe, adagio and acrobatic dancing. In spare moments she paints...
...stage of Carnegie Hall tripped demure, blonde Ellen Berg,11. In a soprano that was emotionless, usually hall-size, usually on pitch, she sang an air from Mozart's Magic Flute. Sophisticated kids and mammas gave each other sidelong looks when Conductor Rudolph Ganz announced that Ellen Berg would next sing the Mad Scene from Lucia di Lammermoor. On that glassy surface, double-runners are not allowed. Coloratura Berg sailed out cleanly, figure-eighted through her trills, skidded a couple of times into her flute accompanist, ducked low to coast into her final note an octave below the conventional...
...famed progressive Lincoln School, Son Charles, 10, gave Father Abraham Krasne a lesson in woodworking (see cut). Occasion: the school's Fathers' Day, staged on Lincoln's Birthday, when some 200 fathers went to school, learned from their children how to handle tools, make a flute, bake a cake, manufacture gunpowder. No mere goodwill show, Fathers' Day at Lincoln is based on a cardinal principle of progressive education: that parents should participate in their children's schooling. Last week's big event was the birth of a guinea pig, supervised and learnedly explained...
...trills, roulades, la-la-las and rarefied staccato eek-eeks of the coloratura are of ancient tradition. The most famed of all coloratura heroines, Lucia di Lammermoor (music also by Donizetti), goes mad, to the accompaniment of an implacable flute. That is typical. Most coloratura roles are in operas in which the heroine goes daft, is throttled, poisoned, knifed, or dies improbably of tuberculosis, along about 11 p.m. But in The Daughter of the Regiment, a coloratura has more chance for fun. The greatest singers of the last century-Jenny Lind, Adelina Patti, Marcella Sembrich, Luisa Tetrazzini-made the most...