Word: fluting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Purcell: Suite for Flute and Strings...
...Hamlet and Henry IV, Part I, has done her usual best by the Bard. Stewart Chancy has designed Italianate landscapes that loom softly behind the players. Paul Bowles, among the up-&-coming young American composers, has written lingering music for Shakespeare's songs, celebrating love and death with flute, oboe, harp, harpsichord, percussion and muted trumpet. The Bard, in his latest Broadway manifestation, has got all the breaks a playwright could wish. The audience's rewards are less solid...
...Richard Donovan chose works by 36 composers for performance in the Yaddo music room. Best-known name on the programs was Oklahoma-born Roy Harris (TIME, April 8), who provided a fairly doughy set of preludes and fugues for string quartet. Quincy Porter's eight-minute quintet for flute and strings, based on A-Tisket, A-Tasket, was the brightest bit. Ross Lee Finney gave out Bletheris, a monody for voice and orchestra based upon a section of The Hamlet of A. MacLeish, which was spoiled because Mr. Finney sang the vocal himself. And so on. None...
...mass painting got under way on the studio set, cinemen & women crowded round to watch. Quintanilla, who picked for his subject the only two girls in the cast, was nicknamed "Goya." Painter Biddie and Actor John Qualen (of whom he did a portrait) played flute duets. After a ong conversation with Joan Crawford, Painter Fiene (whom Hollywood nicknamed "The Safe" because of his bulk) admitted that her legs were even more shapely than he had imagined...
Oscar Ameringer's life began in a German village on the Danube in August 1870. When he was 15, having had flute playing and insurgence beaten into him, he escaped military service by skipping...