Word: flute
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...attempt Adams may have made to impose order was unsuccessful. The Debussy failed to take on any overall shape and, apart from Geoffrey Greenfield's competent flute solo, few distinct lines were extracted from the prevailing mire...
BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). "Jazz: The Intimate Art" focuses on the trumpets of Louis Armstrong and Dizzy Gillespie, the flute of Charles Lloyd and the piano of Dave Brubeck...
...Incredible String Band is Robin Williamson and Mike Heron. They can play almost anything on almost almost anything--ranging from oriental to semi-calypso to blues, rock, classical guitar things and children's songs, blending all into their unclassifiable style using guitar, bowed gimbri, sitar, mandolin, flute, harmonica and an exotic percussion arsenal...
They laughed when an Illinois farmer reported that he had significantly increased his crop yield by serenading corn plants with Rhapsody in Blue. And few believed Indian Botanist T.C.N. Singh when he said that a shrill electric bell speeded the germination of seeds and that classical Indian violin and flute selections promoted crop growth. Or the Australian fruit farmer who swore that he had raised bigger and better bananas by bombarding them with a loud, constant bass note broad cast from loudspeakers set up among the trees...
...provided hearty support with accurate playing from the strings, fine solos by flute and bassoon, and a frenetic percussion section. And when victory was clearly in sight, the enthusiastic woodwinds put down their instruments and joined in singing the crashing finale...