Word: fluting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...program will include a String Quartet, Sonata for Flute and Plane, three songs, and the first performance of Professor Hill's Concertino Number 3 for Pianoforte and Orchestra...
...first performance of a Purcell Dance suite for strings and flute, arranged by Malcolm H. Holmes '28, conductor of the orchestra, will feature the concert. Among many hitherto unknown manuscripts belonging to the crown in the British Museum in London, Holmes discovered the work last summer while occupied in research...
...major: Pergolesi's "Stabat Mater," presented with the Simmons College Glee Club and with Janie Steinseld '43, alto, and Hedwig Miehle '41, soprano, as soloists; Bach's "Wir Glauben all' an einem Gott" arranged and conducted by Ellis Kohs 1G; the Purcell Dance Suite with solo flute, Gabriel Jackson '42; and Beethoven's Overture to Prometheus comprise the program...
...confirmation comes of all our predictions. A few days ago Artie Shaw recorded four sides for Victor at their Hollywood studies with a thirty-one piece band. In addition to the usual six brass, four sax, four rhythm, and Shaw, they added eight violins, three violas, two cellos, flute, oboe, bass clarinet and French horn. Victor says, "Despite the full combination, Shaw will remain (sie ! ! !) in the swing idiom. With the extra musicians, he plans to enhance his style with tone colors and effects, heretofore unattained...
...Potsdam in 1747 went Johann Sebastian Bach, by royal invitation, and was joyfully received by "the most distinguished flute player in Europe," King Frederick the Great. Himself an amateur versifier and composer, Frederick asked his famed visitor to improvise on a royal theme. Bach forthwith obliged, extemporized a three-voice fugue. Frederick, delighted but still royal, thereupon set a more difficult task: development of his original theme into a six-part fugue. That was a stumper, even for the 62-year-old master; to make things worse, Frederick wished the assignment worked out in his presence...