Word: flute
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pierian Sodality of 1808 will present Karen A. Monson '66 (flute) and Charles E. Hamlen '65 (plano) in a concert at 8:30 p.m. tonight in the Fogg Art Museum Courtyard...
...Chagall kept flower arrangements near him while he worked, and his design soon took on the shape of petals, which blossomed into a dreamlike homage to opera and ballet. His favorite composer, Mozart, occupies half of the big blue gore with angelic nudes and a bird playing The Magic Flute; Chagallic vignettes of Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov fill the rest of the blue space. On around the circle, clockwise, yellow-bedecked dancers pirouette to Adam's Giselle and Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake. Ballet is further honored in the red petal, with Stravinsky's Firebird and Ravel...
...strong backing from Baritone Robert Merrill, beginning his 20th season with the Met in fine vocal fettle, and Tenor Sandor Konya, the flame-haired coloratura's performance was a masterpiece of bel canto. In the climactic Mad Scene, in which she sings a duologue with a fluttering solo flute, her glittering coloratura runs, leaps and trills won a standing ovation and 14 curtain calls...
...curtains parted, the composer was crouched over his fiddle, eyes hooded in dark glasses, sweat beading his forehead, his orientally sinister mustache drooping. He leaned over his big bass and began to bow. The mournful, dolorous, lyrical introduction swelled into the horns' full statement of the theme. A flute skittered in. Suddenly a roaring, vibrant alto sax soared over the full horns. Mingus dropped his bow, began to thump. He danced out in front of his bass, bouncing up and down, swarming over the instrument, crashing together swift blocks of strident chords. Drums pounded accents like a Mingus rage...
Brophy's analysis of The Magic Flute lands her in a tangle of psychology and Masonic symbolism that even she has trouble resolving. (Mozart got into pretty deep water too.) But she is brilliant on Cosi Fan Tutti, the opera in which Mozart, like Jane Austen a century later, worked through the conventional comedy of mistaken identity to write daringly of two sisters competing fiercely in love...