Word: fluting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Aubrey had a foot in both worlds. He had an Elizabethan faith in "Marvels, Magick . . . Apparitions . . . Second Sighted Men," along with an undeveloped penchant for scientific research. As a child he saw the old-fashioned shepherd leading his flock with a flute; in his old age he dreamed of emigrating to the "delicious Countrey" of New York, where the people "have such vast Snowes that they are forced to digg their wayes out of their houses, else they would be stifled...
...born in Taunton, Mass, in 1881, onetime worker in a rendering plant, seaman, streetcar motorman, homesteader, gandy dancer, Wobbly and hobo. Stalin ended all rivalries in 1930 by enshrining Earl Browder at the top. Browder, born in Wichita, Kans. in 1891, was a onetime bookkeeper for a drug house, flute player, mystic and draft resister in World War I, for which he went to prison...
Thomas Phillips '47, a member of the faculty of the Longy School of Music, will conduct the orchestra. Oboe, flute, trumpet, two violins, two violas, cello, bass, and percussion are required by the score...
...sacrifice us a warmer-up than the Handel Concerto Grosso in B Flat. Otherwise the program was interesting and consecutive. Malcolm Holmes arranged the Purcell suite from separate dances which he found. With the exception of the Large-Minuet, all the movements contain delightful duets for violin and flute. Howard Brown played with skill but was too frequently obscured by the concert master's able, but over-enthusiastic, performance...
...most spontaneous composition of the evening was Gordon Binkerd's rollicking Prelude and Allegro for flute and piano, and it provided a lot of highly enjoyable listening. The spectacular and extremely difficult flute part was handled magnificently by Howard Brown, whose capabilities were also exhibited in the Diamond Quintet. Karl Kohn's performance of the piano part was equally fine...