Word: fluting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...performance conveyed this bubbling yet mildly pained mood; Paula Robison on flute, especially, gave linear definition by her subtle stress on the downbeat in sixteenth-note passages. The first violins tended to chop off an upbeat eight notes aftera similar stress on the downbeats (a not uncommon failing)--but the total balance was excellent, and had the drive of authentic Baroque spirit...
There has been a flourishing in instrumentation too. Anything that whistles or bleats has been electrified?flute, string bass, tenor sax. There are wah-wah pedals on trombones, electronic keyboards, Moog Synthesizers, Mini Moogs, Micro-Mini Moogs, and last ?and perhaps least?the Alembic Bass with Instant Flanger.* The new machinery is just one more example of how jazz keeps expanding. Says Deejay Charlie Perkins of Boston's WBUR, "Jazz is borrowing the whole electrical thing...
John Beichman, flute, Jerry Chang, cello, and Keith Cheng, piano, perform music by Schumann, Bartok, Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, and Chopin. Holmes Hall North House...
...Magic Flute...
Rulan C. Pian '50, master of South House and the main organizer of this first festival, said yesterday that the South Indian flute lecture-demonstration attracted a larger crowd than any of the festival's events to date. The festival began Thursday with a program of Chinese dancing...