Word: fluting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Second place winner Alex Ogle '62 (flute) of Quincy House will perform Night Sollioquy by Kent Kennan and Suite Modale by Ernest Block with the Orchestra...
First place went to Ellen Friedman '63 (flute) and Barbara Cohen '63 (English horn), both of Comstock Hall, who will perform the Honneger Concerte da Camera with the Orchestra on March...
Elliott Carter: Sonata for Flute, Oboe, Cello & Harpsichord (Columbia). One of the most original and least played of contemporary U.S. composers, Carter (now 51) appears in a work of characteristic complexity and charm. After a series of opening sonorities that explode on the ear, the sonata evolves into a dialogue between the harpsichord-querulous and spidery-and the other members of Carter's oddly assorted chamber group. For all its skirmishing, the sonata has no trouble finding its witty way home...
...combines first-rate scholarship with the kind of prompter's box chitchat that opera fans feed on. With dues at $6 and up, the guild has raised $2,000,000 for the Met, has paid for 14 new productions (including a new Ring cycle, a fine new Magic Flute, last year's Simon Boccanegra) and helped pay for dozens more...
...known as the Improvisation Chamber Ensemble, appeared at Carnegie Hall last week with the visiting Philadelphia Orchestra to display their technique in somewhat elaborated form. Their scheduled piece, certainly the oddest they have yet attempted, was titled Concerto for Improvising Solo Instruments and Orchestra. Pianist Foss and his men-flute, cello, clarinet and percussion-were ranged downstage in front of the orchestra, and Conductor Eugene Ormandy only rarely cast a nervous backward glance at them...