Word: fluted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...optimistic artist. As the bastard son of a Prince of Imeretia he never had to worry for his livelihood. His father received a life-long pension after the Empire annexed his little kingdom in 1810. As a boy Alexander Porfirievitch played expertly on the piano, the cello, the flute. But he also showed a talent for medicine which his family regarded as a more respectable profession. He served two years in a military hospital, struggled with chemistry until he became a professor at the St. Petersburg Academy of Medicine. Chemist Borodin was 28 before he joined the powerful coterie composed...
...Pigs' establishment. The two inferior pigs, squealing and cavorting as usual while their brother builds an addition to the house, advise Red Riding Hood to use a shortcut through the forest where the Big Bad Wolf spends his time. They accompany her along the shortcut, playing their gay flute and fiddle. When the Wolf , makes his appearance, imperfectly disguised as Goldilocks, the piglets behave as might be expected. They run home and hide under the bed. Red Riding Hood escapes...
...whether Stokowski fussed about such things or not. The Mozart-Kleine Nacht Musik started off too delicately to suit him. "Excuse me," he shouted. "It is too fairy. Mozart was very man." He imitated perfectly the sounds he wanted from the English horn, the double bass, the flute. The men's respect mounted until some were calling him the next Toscanini. But Iturbi wanted no adulation. "Please," he repeated frequently. "The music! I am not genius...
...Rudy Vallée, Al Jolson, Helen Morgan. The three little pigs were neither shrewd nor experienced. They were pink and new-looking with pudgy behinds and ridiculous tails. Two were so imprudent that they built their houses of straws and sticks, fiddled and danced and tootled on the flute all day, mocking their serious pig-brother who built a brick house and plastered it with wolfproof cement...
Most of the important organ stops nestle in the new Aeolian-Skinner console. There is a flute celeste, chimney flute, vox humana, piccolo, harp. But there are two manuals against most organs' four and the 427 pipes fit into a nine-by-six-foot closet. The new organ costs $6,000, a new low for full-scale electrically reproducing instruments. It will play any and all of Aeolian's famed $750,000 library of organ rolls-costing $2 to $10 each...