Word: flute
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mozart Bass Arias (Fernando Corena; London). Mozart's writing for basso has never been touched for purity of line and directness of expression, and these six songs (from Figaro, Don Giovanni, Magic Flute) are among his best. Young Basso Corena has a brilliant, resonant tone, gives the music spirited, if not highly polished, interpretations...
Museum of Modern Art, still another kind of composition for tape recorder was unwound: Low Speed, Invention and Fantasy in Space by Otto Luening and Sonic Contours by Vladimir Ussachevsky. Out of the loudspeaker came the sound of a flute-but a flute that could growl like a bassoon, or thunder like the trump of doom, as well as chirp like a bird-and the sound of a piano that seemed to accompany itself with organ tones. Haunting both instruments was a maze of echoes and pulsing overtones...
Composer Luening agrees. For a quarter century he has tried without success to find other performers who could improvise with him when he plays on the flute. When he got together with Ussachevsky last summer, he was delighted to find that he could improvise with himself via tape. Very soon, the men were using devices that automatically distorted, attenuated and reverberated the notes they played. They decided that the resulting tones were not just sounds, but the stuff of music...
...barnyard goose. The whole group stands in a polished, dark granite pool, each statue set on a slender stalk above water level, so that they seem to drift and float across the calm water. Overlooking the figures, Sculptor Milles has placed a merry-looking angel standing guard with a flute and with head cocked attentively...
Carl Milles turned to the angel with the flute, and for a moment put aside his preoccupation with the hereafter. Was the angel listening to the bronze children below? "No," said Sculptor Milles. "He is listening to what the people who come to look at the fountain are saying...