Word: fluting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sunday's program is Bach's Suite for Flute and Figured Bass in C minor, Chopin's Masurkas, Elgar's concerto in E minor (Opus 85), Barber's Overture to "The School for Scandal" (Opus 5), Adagio for Strings, Essay for Orchestra (no. 1, Opus 12), Rangstrom's King Erie's Songs, Divertimento Elegiaco for Strings, Holst's The Perfect Fool, Ballet Suite (Opus...
...cause of the uproar was a seismic new dance called La Pachanga-Caribbean slang for "wild party." Historians are able to date the dance with some exactness. In December 1959, a young Cuban musician named Eduardo Davidson wrote a song called La Pachanga. Havana's charanga groups (drums, flute, piano and strings) picked it up, and by the time the noise drifted north a year later, it was a dance whose gyrations suggested a meringue blended with the samba, Charleston and Bunny Hop. Early this year Bandleader José Fajado brought La Pachanga to the Palladium and Dancing Instructor...
Restraint also marked the music and performance of Kent Kennan's Night Solilquy whose small scale manages to save it from cliched post-romanticism. Senturia's reserve eliminated the occasional triteness of the orchestral part, but on the other hand it weakened the score's build-up to a flute trill. Alex Ogle provided one of the really moving points in the evening with his supple runs and dynamic shadings...
Ernest Bloch's Suite Modale had a more confused, unsteady relationship between the melodic lines of the flute and orchestra, which may have been the fault of Bloch or the performance. Otherwise, the orchestra and Ogle were adequate...
...last week Laos' torpid, dusty administrative capital of Vientiane swarmed with crowds-but not in panic. Along the banks of the slow-moving Mekong River there were foot races, boxing and wrestling matches. At night the temple courtyards were filled with slim girls dancing to haunting flute music. A torchlight parade wound through the city, and everyone agreed that the most magnificent floats were those of the Royal Laotian Army...