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Word: fluting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...live mix, but they added occasional embellishments to a decidedly unembellished music. And when they did, their contributions were both fresh and tasteful, like the guitar-sax phrase traders in "Lovin' Me," and the chorus on "Peace of Mind," with its slightly mournful, gospel tinge. Clarke played a pretty flute transition between "To Make a Woman Feel Wanted," and "Peace of Mind...

Author: By Frederick Boyd, | Title: Spirits in the Sky | 7/11/1972 | See Source »

...what a Jewish wedding it was. A trumpet blast, and the 55 guests climbed to their seats on a hillside overlooking San Francisco Bay near the home of Bride Daria Halprim, who starred in Zabriskie Point. The music began as a composition for synthesizer, ram's horn, flute, and a Yemenite trumpet recorded especially for the wedding. Then, to the melody of a flute song, Daria, in a purple velvet Navajo dress, walked to the bridal canopy designed by her father, Landscape Architect Lawrence Halprin. After the ceremonial crushing of the wineglass under Hopper's foot, everybody danced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 29, 1972 | 5/29/1972 | See Source »

...harpsichord, Nils Vigeland led a well-balanced ensemble hampered only by the harpsichord's small size. Of the four upper-voice players, violinist Lynn Chang and flutist John Thow showed fine technique with sensitive dynamics and phrasing. Thow's playing had the kind of edge necessary for a flute set against such dense counterpoint provided by the more powerful instruments...

Author: By Kenneth Hoffman, | Title: A Farewell Concert | 5/16/1972 | See Source »

...dominant role in the piece. Playing the piccolo trumpet. Robert Hazen noticeably tired in the final allegro, missing some high notes altogether and parts from sixteenth-note sequences. In the first movement, though, he was in much better from with a beautifully quiet tone that blended well with flute, oboe, and strings. peter Weiss played oboe unevenly: he was not sensitive to the dynamics of the other players, and he occasionally made subordinate parts far too loud...

Author: By Kenneth Hoffman, | Title: A Farewell Concert | 5/16/1972 | See Source »

...screeching duet of violin and clarinet whose tessitura was in no way balanced by the later addition of piccolo. The players maintained a remarkable faithfulness to pitch, extremely difficult in view of the ranges they were forced into. The fourth In Nomine was a beautiful Debussy-like flute and harp duet over viola and cello accompaniment...

Author: By Kenneth Hoffman, | Title: A Farewell Concert | 5/16/1972 | See Source »

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