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JAMES GALWAY, FLUTE AND FRIENDS BankBoston Celebrity Series At Symphony Hall October...
...have to use so many long words?" the professor responded, "Well, you have to impress people." His one contact with the administration came late one night. As a freshman, Seeger roomed above the Union dining hall where he worked. He was sitting by his window, playing a small Chinese flute when a policeman arrived and told him to stop, as it was disturbing the University president in his house across...
...private life, Green downhill skied, scuba-dived, sailed and traveled, said his wife, Joanna. As an undergraduate, Green played the flute in the Harvard band...
Should anyone even care what people like my colleague and me think of Sinatra? My own higher notions about music were incubated while listening to Jethro Tull albums (whoa--a flute!). Sinatra's body of work, meanwhile, stretches back to the 1930s and is nothing less than "the final statement on pre-rock pop," as Will Friedwald, the invaluable Sinatra scholar, recently wrote of the Songs for Swingin' Lovers! album, released in 1956 and generally considered Sinatra's finest LP. "Something radically different just had to come next," Friedwald continues, "because nothing in the realm of Tin Pan Alley could...
...Interludio per Corde, for that's all it was--intense chords adding gradually to the strange aura of the music, chords that take their origins from unknown places that only the orchestra seemed to know. However, Joe Levin `98, changed the mood by performing a fast and striking flute solo with the orchestra providing major dynamic contrast. Playing off Levin's solo was a long clarinet scherzo, shrieking through technically challenging runs in some kind of frantic war dance, stopping for moments to provide a melodious peace, only to gradually build up more tension into crazy clarinet runs, successfully demonstrated...