Word: fluting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...DOMINANT theme of Inserts is sex and sexual inadequacy as a metaphor for the inability to cope with life in general. The big joke during the film is that The Boy Wonder is sexually impotent: "You couldn't get his rope to rise with a magic flute." The Boy Wonder's manic need to make films is a form of sexual displacement--perhaps it is the need for gratification that drives him to make "five-and-dime films" when he has been forced from "real films." In a confrontation with Cathy Cake he is made to face the full reality...
...President tired visibly toward the end of the trip; yet in Kweilin, a city famous for its landscapes of jagged hills and misty waterways, he was able to walk up some 300 yds. of steep stone steps to visit the Reed Flute Cave, apparently with no ill effects...
...cello Intermezzo is a concert rarity never before recorded. It is dreamy, emotionally vague and inconsequential. His piano and cello Sonata No. 1 in D Minor is another matter. Here Cellist Solow gets the chance to display his flawless intonation and generous technique as the cello imitates a guitar, flute, mandolin and tambourine. The Saint-Säens C Minor Sonata is a work of contrasts and Pianist Vallecillo masters both its turbulent and serene passages. If this LP serves as an indicator of Desmar's artistic and recording quality, its future should be cheerful...
Carl Nielsen: Wind Quintet plus three other chamber works (Vestjysk Kammerensemble Denmark; Deutsche Grammophon: $7.98). Nielsen's 1922 quintet for flute, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon sought to unveil the individual personality of each wind instrument. In this idyllic piece evoking wild birds and long tree shadows, the flute is very much at home in the forest. The mood quickens, driven by a jazzy oboe, and the clarinet squabbles with the bassoon. The Western Jutland Chamber Ensemble plays with grace, rhythmic drive and a certain sense of mischief...
Heidi Ratner, flute; Michael Loucks, piano; Charles Kletzch, voice and piano perform compositions of Brahms, Ibert and Kletzsch. Dunster House Library, 3:00. James Meadors, lute, plays sixteenth century English lute songs. Eliot House Library...