Word: flute
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mozart: The Magic Flute (RIAS Symphony Orchestra, chorus and soloists conducted by Ferenc Fricsay; Decca, 3 LPs). Despite its slightly studied style and rather tubby sound, this is the finest recording yet to appear of the 165-year-old masterpiece. Soprano Maria Stader makes Pamina a joy to the ear; Rita Streich is awesomely secure in the Queen of the Night's sky-high aerobatics, while the two leading men, Tenor Ernst Häfliger and Baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, use their handsome voices with distinction...
...instruments involved are flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, and bassoon...
...your March 5 remarks on the Metropolitan Opera's new production of Mozart's The Magic Flute and the fact that it "was made possible by a grant from Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Jr.," your music critic added the comment: "She did not get her money's worth." May I add my comment-"Oh, yes, she did!" And what is even better, music lovers seem to be getting theirs...
...Beck, 30, a Dutch pianist who is sometimes called "the Flying Dutchess.'' cannot tell a fifth from a fipple flute, but that does not keep her from bopping along on the cool side of the street and leaving the sunny side to Dixielanders. When Pia took off after a vocal chorus in English last week at the Tijuana, a Baltimore nightclub, listeners cried. "Hey, this chick's not from Europe-she's from Brooklyn...
...clarinets and 'cello, and the second with an attractive arpeggiated piano background. It was a welcome relief, furthermore, to hear songs with the text set straight through instead of having the phrases repeated a dozen times. Thrown in for good measure were the four tuneful airs for soprano, violin, flute and 'cello that Addiss wrote for last fall's Eliot House production of The Tempest...