Word: fluting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wide (20 to 12,000 cycles) that it can reproduce almost all sounds within the span of human hearing. The narrower ranges of most other machines (50 to 7,000) do not reproduce the full resonance of a symphony orchestra, fail to catch the high overtones of a flute. The popular-priced
...Symphony (Sun. 5 p.m., NBC). Mozart's overture to The Magic Flute, Divertimento in B-Flat for Strings and Two Horns, "Haffner" Symphony in D Major. Conductor: Arturo Toscanini...
...voluble-and a little vague-about her twelve years under the Nazis. By her account, the years were a personal struggle to keep her "rich speech of the body" (usually done to tom-toms, bells or a single flute) from being silenced by the "mannered and stilted" conventional ballet form, which appealed more to Nazi leaders...
...bought tickets to her first concert in Mexico City last year, but at intermission excited Mexicans rushed into the streets to shout the news of a new discovery. For the encores, the theater was filled, even to standees. The newspaper Novedades raved: "Was it an angel? A nightingale? A flute of gold?" During the next four weeks Ellabelle Davis sang five more concerts; all were sellouts. Finally the Nacional signed her for this season's Aïda. After the opera season she is booked for 21 concerts in Central and South America...
...Army captain in Frankfurt who had heard her sing told Krueger about her, arranged a quick audition in an empty Army mess hall. She sang for two hours, scorned warm-up and launched confidently into the "Queen of the Night," Mozart's test-piece from The Magic Flute.* Krueger signed her on the spot...