Word: fluted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tahitian music has been largely Frenchified. The Fahnestocks could not find what they most wanted: a nose-flute. But Tahitians are distinctive guitar players, and have a trick of chanting double-talk to get in the groove before cutting loose. They also like to take a Western tune and Tahitify it. Ta-ra-ra-boom-de-ay was one the Fahnestocks gave them; it came...
...recorder was antique even in Shakespeare's time. Although in England and Germany the recorder never quite became extinct, elsewhere it became a museum piece like the crwth (a type of Welsh fiddle), the nose flute, the theorbo. Five years ago, when a man asked for a recorder at G. Schirmer, Inc., Manhattan's big music store, he drew blank. Last week Schirmer's had a window full of recorders. Even during the dull summer months, sales had gone...
...These works, by three teachers and a recent graduate of the nourishing Eastman School of Music, are easy to hear. Wayne Barlow's oboe rhapsody, The Winter's Past, says its piece most persuasively. Others: Serenade (clarinet) by Homer Keller; American Dance (bassoon) by Burrill Phillips; Soliloquy (flute) by Bernard Rogers...
...immensely difficult coloratura soprano aria, even for markswomanly singers, is the one in Mozart's Magic Flute in which the Queen of the Night declares that she is boiling with fury. Last week a recording of this air, advertised entirely by rumor, enjoyed a lively little sale at Manhattan's Melotone Recording Studio...
...wryness that almost belies the adjectives in the title. . . Finally, there is the love music from Tristan and Isolde by Stokowski and the Youth Orchestra, on Columbia, one of the least tolerable productions this fallen master has turned out. The performance is tame, muddily recorded, and the substitution of flute, oboe, and other whatnots for the solo voices, makes the whole thing a very uninteresting item indeed...