Word: fluted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...THEATRE IN LIFE?Nicolas Evreinov?Brentano ($3.50). M. Evreinov's Russian ingenuity has excelled in such varied activities as circus performing, archaeology, law, novels, history and flute-playing, but his chief passion and reputation are in the theatre. This book, a more or less formal attempt to enunciate a philosophy, elaborates Shakespeare's dictum about all the world being a stage. Poet Robert Burns would have been interested, for M. Evreinov touches also on the problem of seeing oneself as seen by others. "The Theatre of Oneself," says M. Evreinov, is conducted by every human being in all those acts...
...program will be given tonight at the Pops: Overture to "Norma" Bellini Air for String Orchestra, from the Suite in D major, No. 3 Bach Overture to "Leonore No. 3" Beethoven The Square and Compass Club Choir a. Hymn to Nature Beethoven b. The Lost Chord Sullivan "The Magic Flute," Overture Mozart Unfinished Symphony in B minor Schubert "Euryanthe," Overture Weber Fifth Hungarian Dance Brahms Waltz, "By the Beautiful Blue Danube" Strauss Overture Solennelle, "1812" Tchaikovsky
With the rich tones of a flute fashioned of fine gold, with motion pictures of rippling lines "recording sound waves, Professor Dayton Clarence Miller of the Case School of Applied Science, Cleveland, illustrated last week "The Basis of Tone Quality in Instrumental Music...
...pursed lips of a whistling boy, explained Professor Miller, made the first flute. Wooden whistles, Pan pipes, led the way to the tube with its many stops...
Scientifically a flute's note is simply the projection of a column of air and the vibration of this column before its diffusion into the air. The crowning glory of the flute art is the gold instrument, made with his own hands, many times lent to the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Soon he expects to make a platinum flute that will give even richer, truer tone...