Word: fluting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...what is expected of such unique instruments as guitars and mandolins. Therefore, the management has with some trouble secured some traditional and characteristic Spanish airs and dances which are specially adapted to those instruments, and which will be new to most audiences. In some of these airs a flute part is introduced and a 'cello will probably be soon added to the club. The effect in these Spanish airs is heightened by use of triangle, cymbals, tambourine, and castanets. The following men at present compose the club...
...most interesting suite the orchestra employed, is Moszkowski's suite in F, every one of the five movements bringing enthusiastic response from the audience. Each is very characteristic, and brings out some peculiar feature of the orchestra. In the first movement is a tuba solo, in the third, a flute solo, variation of a theme, also a variation with whole stringed orchestra pizzicatto and the last movement, the "Perpetum Mobile," is a fine piece of counterpoint...
...Boston Symphony Orchestra, assisted by a chorus of 300, will give a concert this afternoon in Music Hall in aid of the Vienna Monument Fund. Mme. Lilli Kalisch-Lehmann, Miss Louise Meisslinger, Mr. Paul Kalisch and Mr. Emil Fischer will be the soloists. The programme: -Overture (Magic Flute); Tamino's Aria (Magic Flute); Letter Duet (Marriage of Figaro); Sarastio's Aria (In these Sacred Halls); and the Mozart Requiem for chorus, orchestra and soloists...
...symphony showed the vast improvement the orchestra has made since last year. The wind and wood instruments are decidedly better, especially the flute and oboe. In the last two movements the attack of the violins was wonderful and it is hard to see how Mr. Gericke could have bettered it had he been leading himself...
...reduced to a single active member, as was the case when Mr. G. held the meeting regularly alone, not forgetting, it is said, to put up the advertising board for his own sole notification each week, calling himself to order, proceeding conscientiously with his solitary rehearsal, practicing upon his flute his accustomed part until the hour of duty was complete, and so striving, not in vain, to keep the sacred flame alive. One might say with perfect truth that the Pierian Sodality attended those rehearsal...