Word: fluting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...outset, John Morris's harp chords and sustained flute convey an ominous mood appropriate for the 16th-century Vienna where "quite athwart goes all decorum." Michael Kahn has added a brief prologue that introduces us to some of the unsavory people in the city--including a blind beggar, a pickpocket, a legless cripple. There is no point in trying to avoid the play's prevailingly rancid taste. Kahn has abridged the text a little, so that the show has a running-time of two and a half hours...
...later, brought me once again into that cemetery. This time, however, I noticed that the trees were unnaturally large and gnarled, as if they sucked some secret vitality from the inner earth. To my ears came a faint, loathsome piping, like the whining, thin mockery of a single feeble flute that was to start an unwholesome elfin celebration. Just before I awoke, feverish and gasping, I noticed a cowled figure Who beckoned slowly to me, and with a gaunt finger pointed into Lovecraft's open sepulcher...
...band tumbles beautifully into the middle of the chorus, there is an interaction between acoustic and electric bass subtle enough to be missed. The electric piano vibrates while the acoustic piano skips lightly on the last chorus and ascends over the final progression, giving way to two short flute phrases belying the final fade. The lyrics are sensitive, personal, self-deprecating. Easily Simon's most beautiful effort...
ELIOT LIBRARY. Baroque chamber music for flute, viola da gamba, and harpsichord. Works of C.P.E. Bach, Rameau, and Marais. Free. Saturday...
...notoriously independent, as the old saw about the French flutist demonstrates. Ordered by a conductor to play in a certain style, the musician said: "Very well, I'll play it his way at rehearsal, but just wait till the concert. After all, man ami, it's my flute." With Solti, it is different. Says Orchestre de Paris Flutist Michel Debost...