Word: flute
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...work is The Ghosts of Versailles, by New York City-born John Corigliano, 53. The Met's artistic director, James Levine, picked Corigliano with both genuine admiration and a steady eye on the box office. Corigliano's theatrical, highly finished orchestral works, including clarinet and flute concertos and a symphony, are being played with increasing frequency around the country and are popular with audiences. His score for Ghosts may not be trailblazing music, but it is effective and, above all, singable. There are melodic arias and ensembles, some clever, pleasing Mozart pastiches, and climaxes tumultuous enough to rival Les Miserables...
Boston University School for the Arts--presents a flute, violin and piano performance of Mozart, Martinu, Barber, Martin and Schubert at the Tsai Performance Center at 685 Commonwealth Ave. in Boston. Call 353-3345. Friday...
...MAGIC FLUTE (PBS, June 19, 8 p.m. on most stations). Artist David Hockney designed this Metropolitan Opera production of Mozart, starring Kathleen Battle...
Taking a break from his flute playing, 23-year-old Sheba described his own experience squatting in a house on Eliot St. before it burned down last year. "The squat was good for all of us," he said. "It was a happy home...
...free speech/obscenity issue. There are no such things as absolute rights, and the First Amendment's free-speech guarantee does not protect obscenity. That said, the challenge is to figure out what is and is not obscene. If 2 Live Crew ever does a version of Mozart's "Magic Flute," no one except music lovers will complain. The unedited "Me So Horny" is another matter...