Word: fluted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Illness prevented one of the two scheduled pianists from performing, with a resulting insecurity that will hopefully be rectified by this afternoon (along with a somewhat trigger-happy light board technician). Cecelia Hopkins played the flute obbligatos with assurance...
Whole families often play with the Philharmonic. S. Carl Robinson, vice president of the St. Louis transit system, plays the second flute while his wife is a timpanist and his 23-year-old son a French horn player. The rehearsal schedule is heavy: six 2½-hour rehearsals for each of four concerts. What gives the Philharmonic its special quality? "They are amateurs," said Guest Conductor Van Remoortel last week, "in the old sense of the word-'people in love with something.' This group happens to be in love with music...
...People thought I fought for fame, but I only fought my way through from being the town fool and the family idiot.'' It was a long fight; Lindsay was 33 when Harriet Monroe printed General Booth (with its parenthetical instructions for bass drum, banjo and flute accompaniment) in her Poetry Magazine...
...proved a versatile workhorse computer, led Machines Bull engineers to design the new Gamma 60 line. The Gamma 60s, coming out in January, are the last word in "simultaneous" computer design, are as far ahead of the Gamma 35, says Callies, as a pipe organ is ahead of a flute. Costing $1,000,000 to $3,000,000 each, depending on the number of components used, the 60s can make 10,000 additions, 3,333 multiplications, 1,666 divisions and 10,000 mathematical decisions each second. One part of the computer even acts as a foreman, assigns work to other...
...join in singing, one after another, a wonderful series of catches and glees--and not just snatches, but entire pieces. These, and the rest of the extensive musical score for the show, were composed in a sure-handed, neo-Elizabethan style by Andre Singer (his instrumentation is comprised of flute, trumpet, harp, and a sizable battery of percussion...