Word: flute
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...performance produced ample evidence of the artistry behind the fame and of their notoriety in classical music circles. The concert consisted of three wood-wind concertos, a Flute Concerto in G by Johann Joachim Quantz, a concerto for bassoon and orchestra called The Five Sacred Trees by Williams and the Pied Piper Fantasy by John Corigliano. A small highlighted paragraph in the program booklet introduced this program as an experiment in concerto styles, setting forth the traditional three-movement Quantz concerto as a "control" for the more contemporary programmatic styles of the last two concertos. Even in this small paragraph...
...soon in the jazz-to-die-for genre, A Very Still Life, a CD featuring the work of Dr. Jack Kevorkian. Don't expect "horribly morbid stuff," warns Resist Records owner Chad Williams, who says Kevorkian's compositions are "upbeat." Backed by the Morpheus Quintet, the doctor improvises on flute. Some of the proceeds, if any, will fund an assisted-suicide clinic...
...tone was rich with a gorgeous vibrato, and he performed the tricky staccato scales perfectly--as Shakespeare might say, "trippingly on the tongue." Martin also projected exquisite stage presence, playing to the sections of the orchestra that shared his melody, and ending each movement with a flourish of his flute and an intense look, reminiscent of a tango dancer, toward his fellow musicians...
...last piece, Bach's famous Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D Major, featured Iona Brown on violin, Jaime Martin on flute, and Ian Watson on harpsichord. It was a charming, polished piece to end the concert, with hypnotic rhythms and fascinating fugal patterns...
...sparkling performance. The piece is highly whimsical and melodramatic in an almost burlesque manner, making it easy to see why Rossini overtures figure so prominently in cartoon soundtracks. Despite the overture's comic nature, the beautiful oboe solo at the beginning of the piece was highly expressive. A flute and oboe duet later in the piece was equally haunting, and reminiscent of Rossini's famous Overture to The Barber of Seville...