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Explains Ken Cramer, 23, a blue-denimed, long-haired flute player out of Rochester's Eastman School of Music: "This way we can support ourselves, practice continually and keep on playing. Otherwise we'd be washing dishes instead of learning repertory...
Stirred by the pinch of musical unemployment and the urge for personal freedom, San Francisco's corps of street minstrels has now grown to a score or more regular performers, mainly on the flute, clarinet, bassoon, violin and viola. All have become remarkably knowledgeable about what kinds of groups, sounds, and even sites are best for competing with the daily cacophony of a busy city...
...course, some problems with the piece. The other soloists were not up to the quality of Sorensen, Hester, and Wilson; their performances ranged from adequate to bad. The strings of the second orchestra, excepting the cello, were out of shape, seemingly under-rehearsed. But the viola da gamba and flute solos, the latter especially, were remarkably well-handled and most of the orchestra played nicely...
...Symphony Orchestra created a series of recordings that were like valentines to each other. Here are five of them: Brahms' Tragic Overture, Beethoven's Leonore Overture No. 1, the Weber-Berlioz Invitation to the Dance and, for the first time on American LP, Mozart's Magic Flute Overture and Rossini's La Scala di Seta Overture. As usual, the maestro's familiar musical gusto is the controlling factor, augmented by the expressive freedom he accorded the BBC first-desk men in their solo work. There is also a certain pervasive ease and serenity not always...
Died. Mimi Benzell, 47, Metropolitan Opera soprano turned successful Broadway, TV and nightclub singer; of cancer; in Manhasset, N.Y. Making her Met debut at age 21 as the Queen of the Night in Mozart's The Magic Flute, she won acclaim for such roles as Gilda in Rigoletto and Musetta in La Boheme before moving to Broadway, where she starred in the long-running musical Milk and Honey...