Word: fluting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unfortunately, Vivaldi's second flute concerto was not the best vehicle to fully exhibit Miss Monson's brilliance. The solo part is too constraining; the tutti parts are too dominating. She was simply not able to shine the way she can when given the opportunity. This concerto is frequently referred to as one of Vivaldi's "xeroxed concertos"--those he cranked out for his orchestra of girl orphans. Of course, with Vivaldi even a "xeroxed concerto" is a gem; and, given their masterly soloist, the HRO might have made something of this one--if only the strings and the harpsichord...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra performs at 8:30 tonight in Sanders Theatre. The program will consist of Vivaldi's "Concerto for Flute and Strings," Karen Monson, soloist; Webern's "Symphony Opus 21," William Conable, guest conductor; Brahm's "Piano Concerto #1," Ursula Oppens...
...monthlong concert tour that will take him from Copenhagen to Tripoli to Minneapolis. Fidgety and ferret-bright, Gazzeloni started noodling around with atonal music about 20 years ago, got fascinated when he found that in order to play the new music he had to dispense with the traditional flute technique and develop a new one. After several years of experiment, he developed one that permits him to cacophonize like an electronic menagerie. His art appalls the classical masters, but it reveals an exciting and significant new function of the flute...
...object in which these artists find such rich resource is the most ancient of wind instruments. Unperforated flutes have been found among paleolithic remains, and neolithic man had already learned to puncture the sound tube and turn it elegantly tangent to his lips. In classical antiquity, "Phrygian pipes" were played by prostitutes, and during the Renaissance an epidemic of flute playing swept across Europe. Henry VIII owned 148 flutes and tootled several hours a day. Frederick the Great of Prussia caught flute fever as a boy, and hid his teacher in a closet to escape the wrath of his flute...
...instrument now in use, the French eagerly adopted it. By World War I, flutists like Claude Paul Taffanel, Georges Barrere and Marcel Moyse had produced an impressive tradition of virtuosity. Oddly enough, the romantic composers could not find a place in their palette for the infinite colors of the flute, but Debussy and Ravel, the great impressionists, splashed patches of flute all over their sound paintings. Suddenly instrumentalists began to clamor for flute lessons. In Europe, the great teacher was Marcel Moyse; in the U.S. William Kincaid. Between them, these men developed almost all the important modern flutists...