Word: fluting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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FOLK 'N' FLUTE (Pacific Jazz). Folk music is so popular today that blues singers call themselves folk singers and jazz combos have been known to swing John Henry and We Shall Overcome-violently. Bud Shank and the Folkswingers, featuring Shank's cool flute and Joe Pass's warm guitar, stay close to the spirit of the ballads in their gentle improvisations on songs like This Land Is Your Land and Blowin' in the Wind...
...museum pieces. This was music of an exciting time, full of violent contrasts." The Tanglewood program presented by Pro Musica ranged from the solemn Lamentations of Jeremiah to the sprightly "hey ding a ding" of It Was a Lover and His Lass, an exquisitely chiseled duologue for recorder and flute, a blatantly comic Tobacco Is Like Love, and a spirited London Street Cries, alive with the calls of street vendors and town criers...
During a tour of Tokyo eight years ago, Composer Benjamin Britten was introduced to "a totally new operatic experience"-a Japanese No drama. Fascinated by the stark economy of style and the eerie mixtures of guttural chants, drums and flute, Britten decided that it might be interesting to give an English background to the simple tale of Sumida-gawa- a demented mother seeking her lost child...
MOZART: DIVERTIMENTO NO. 2 (George Szell conducting a chamber group from the Cleveland Orchestra; Epic). Mozart composed this divertimento (for flute, oboe, bassoon, four horns and strings) after two operas and 26 symphonies, but he still had something to say; he was 16. Szell makes the 200-year-old party music sound as bright and young as yesterday, and he insists that the dancing be both festive and mannerly...
...VIRTUOSO FLUTE (Antonio Janigro conducting I Solisti di Zagreb; Vanguard). Cleveland-born Julius Baker plays the Telemann Suite in A Minor for Flute and Strings in sensitive partnership with the chamber ensemble of soloists from Zagreb. Telemann gives the flute seven chances to preen and prance beside the violins, in an Italian air, some minuets, a polonaise...