Word: fluting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Maybe I made a mistake in my career years ago," says Prey, 53, reflectively. "I should probably have switched to more dramatic roles earlier." Outstanding as the guileless Papageno in Mozart's The Magic Flute, the rakish Eisenstein in Die Fledermaus and the clever Figaro in both Rossini's The Barber of Seville and Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro, Prey has unwillingly become typecast as an operatic nice guy. It is understandable. Who can see him as a villain...
...warm Carnegie acoustics, which can shelter a whispering flute and accommodate a thunderous fortissimo, the Berliners showed off the strengths that have made them the class of world-class ensembles. First there are the string sections, violins, violas, cellos and basses, which play together as one, producing a dark, creamy sound unsurpassed in lushness and sheer beauty. The brasses gleam like the finest gold, with especially choice nuggets among the horns. And there are the woodwinds, blending their highly distinctive sounds together like expert chamber musicians. In concert, the Berlin Philharmonic becomes a single instrument, devised by a craftsman...
...Lake Placid, N.Y. Simmons conducted at England's prestigious Glyndebourne Festival and led many of the major orchestras in the U.S. He gained acclaim for his dynamism and adventurous programming. This month he was to have conducted a work of his favorite composer, Mozart's The Magic Flute, at the New York City Opera. Said Beverly Sills: "Cal had so much to offer. I just can't take...
Weird, heavy and polychrome, the 15-story Portland Building might be Sarastro's Temple of Isis magically transposed from some second-rate set for Mozart's The Magic Flute into the shadows of banal skyscrapers along Portland's Transit Mall. It takes up the entire block between the Italian Renaissance city hall and the neoclassical Multnomah County Courthouse...
...devotees who must have their daily dose of Beethoven, the Minnesota Orchestra is staging an imaginative Sommerfest lasting through Aug. 14 that features all 16 of the composer's works for solo instruments and orchestra. The repertory includes such oddments as the Romance in E-Minor for flute, bassoon and piano and Beethoven's own piano arrangement of his violin concerto...