Word: fluted
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...will enter into a priestly order of divine beings by passing through a series of odd Masonic rituals that enable you to confound the conspirators aligned against you. And, if you play your cards right, you might even manage to fall passionately in love and pick up a nifty flute with animal-charming powers along...
...performance was successful on many levels, particularly principal flute Jacques Zoon’s solo in the Pan-Syrinx pantomime. Yes, he hit all the notes, but his gestures and timing were right on as well, resulting in an all-around impeccable delivery. Other members of the woodwind section played their most difficult and taxing parts brilliantly. The strings, however, were not at their strongest, and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus sang their wordless parts too directly and without the distance sometimes required in this music. Haitink conducted effortlessly, and took the final “Danse Generale?...
...taken to the streets calling for Kuchma to resign, and Kravchenko's departure is seen as a gesture of compromise by the President and an effort to preserve his own hold on power. DIED. MORRIS ("MOE") KOFFMAN, 72, flutist, saxophonist and Canadian jazz icon best known for his catchy flute tune Swinging Shepherd Blues, which went to the top of the pop charts in 1958 and was subsequently recorded by more than 100 artists including Ella Fitzgerald; in Toronto. Over a five-decade career, Koffman released more than 30 albums and performed with jazz greats such as Dizzy Gillespie...
Schuller originally played the flute, but switched to the French horn at age 14. Two years later he made his debut when the New York Philharmonic hired him as an extra horn player in the legendary premiere of Shostakovich's Leningrad Symphony, conducted by Arturo Toscanini. The precocious musician was then hired at the tender age of 17 as principal horn of the Cincinnati Symphony. The orchestra's music director, Eugene Goossens, was a major influence. "He was a great mentor, and he supported my composing. He arranged for my professional debut as a composer, when he arranged...
...than a live recording (which, to continue the metaphor, would be akin to a photograph), where one moment is captured in time, the studio album is built up from a base, with layers added, changed, added again and perfected. On top of vocals, our colleague Frisbay added his trombone, flute, trumpet and organ parts in the remaining few, hectic days...