Word: fluted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tonight at 8 o'clock in Sanders Theater, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Dr. Serge Koussevitzky, will give a concert consisting of an overture and two symphonies, representing the work of Mozart and of Brahms. The following is the program: Overture, "The Magic Flute" Mozart Symphony in G minor Mozart Symphony in D major, Op. 73 Brahms
...clock in the Music Building, where today's specialty it seems, is the grand finale of a fortnight of eighteenth century dances. The Vagabond is looking forward to the record of Frederick Stock conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in Bach's Suite in B minor, for flute and string orchestra. And after the overture, he will strain his ears for the stately rhythm of the polonaise, and the humorous, catchy tones of the badinerie, which shows Bach in his lightest vein...
Associated intimately with Mr. Whiting and his concerts was George Barrere, who never failed, year in and year out, to perform on his famous flute with a perfection known only to the foremost flutists of history. And just as intimately associated as Mr. Whiting was the Gluck Melodie which he rendered every year with ever increasing freshness and variety...
...Philo Vance, was one of New York City's Police Commissioners you may never have heard about. "What [he] really wanted was to be a musician and poet (in deadly privacy he applied himself to the forms of the sonnet and the villanelle and practiced cadenzas on a flute) but unfortunately nature had made him a detective and, as he once told me, with that quirkish smile of his, 'Not even my duties as Police Commissioner shall keep me from the business of solving crimes...
...passenger to New York from the devastated area in Italy told how William Guard, longtime press agent for the Metropolitan Opera, immediately after the temblors mounted a balcony of his hotel half-dressed, played on a flute to calm the terror-stricken populace milling below...