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...thief did not take a Walkman, stereo and computer also in the room. Ancker said she thinks the thief may have seen her playing her flute and broken into the room expressly to steal...
...musical circles, Thomson is recognized as a revolutionary modernist. Yesterday's program included such eclectic compositions as "Capital, Capitals," a four-part chanted vocalization of a Gertrude Stein dialogue with piano accompaniment, and "Sonata for Flute Alone," which was performed by Fenwick Smith, a well-known Boston flutist...
...turn up on his new synthesizer album Theme of Secrets. There are the down-home guitar serenades of Folk Veteran Leo Kottke. And there is Hwong's dreamy, Asian-inflected music, which in her album House of Sleeping Beauties weds such disparate instruments as the shakuhachi (a traditional Japanese flute) and the synthesizer to create a delicate, free-flowing hybrid of est and West...
Seventy-six trombones and 110 cornets may be all very well, but they aren't a patch on 550 flutists. The instrumentalists, who were attending the 14th Annual Flute Convention in New York City, gathered in the plaza at Lincoln Center one morning last week for a "flute-in"; they included teachers from Kentucky, flute- makers from Connecticut and Suzuki-method pupils from California. As cameras focused in for the Today show, diminutive Irish Pied Piper James Galway led the rows of virtuosos in Danny Boy, then John Denver's Annie's Song, which a Galway recording has popularized...
Overall, the Lowell House's production of the Magic Flute is long, but fun. Starting late and running a bit over three-and-one-half hours, Thursday night's productions had quite a few pitfalls (including what amounted to over half-an-hour of set moving!) which just could not be righted by the few winning performances it produced. Spend five dollars instead and go see Swedish film director Ingmar Bergman's 1976 version of The Magic Flute--definitely more vocal magic for your money...