Word: fluting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seriously. The problem is that he takes himself so seriously that he hardly leaves room for anyone else. Tull's work is sometimes imaginitive. It is almost always pretentious. But Boston Garden--where you sit two miles from the performers--seems like the worst place to enjoy Anderson's flute-playing acrobatics...
...right. The weekend's concert is entitled "A Passion Play"; a Cartesian mind like mine assumes that Anderson and his gang will be performing stuff from the new album of the same name. Ian Anderson traditionally puts on a good show for his audience -- the way he handles his flute is a master-piece of modern erotic theater. With Livingston Taylor, Boston Garden, Friday and Saturday...
...NATO? Six nations in search of an enemy!"), Peter Ustinov is also an old hand at opera. Over the past decade he has staged one-acters by Puccini, Ravel and Schonberg at Covent Garden, and in 1968 he directed a successful new version of Mozart's The Magic Flute at the Hamburg State Opera. Until that possible day when he sings and acts all the parts in Wagner's Ring cycle, Ustinov's most ambitious operatic venture will be the Don Giovanni he conceived, designed and directed for the opening of the 27th Edinburgh International Festival last...
Paula Robison will give a solo flute concert at the Fogg Museum on Wednesday, August 1, at 8:30 p.m. No admission charge...
...Richardson, an estimable actor back here for the fourth consecutive season, takes a valiant fling at the part. His "sword of heaven" soliloquy is neatly spoken, discreetly underlined by one horn, then a second horn, harp, and flute. But Richardson is most effective in finding humorous aspects in the role, such as when, on donning a monk's disguise, he mimies Friar Peter's rolling of the hands. (Shakespeare had already used the ruler-in-disguise device in Henry V, when the king wanders incognito among his troops just before the Battle of Agincourt...