Word: fluting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...movie industry, with a representative collection of fools: Mickey Boorman and Pat Sligo, two pot-smoking "New Wave" filmmakers from L.A.; Carl Dorf, a self-exiled victim of McCarthyism; Dan Rashur, the wunderkind director with the Colgate smile; Sy Joelmersbagger, a tweedy history professor from Yale; and Sir Flute Parsons, an over-the-hill British screenwriter with a fondness for money and American boys. Wood gives each one his brief theatrical moment and tries to build an act out of a few comic situations (like Joe's constant run-ins with his assistant, Wesley) that can't last very long...
Mozart: The Magic Flute (Deutsche Grammophon, 3 LPs). Karajan, again, casting singers freshly and coming up with a reading that is both authoritative and sumptuous...
...this and other points - including a new scene concerning the premiere of The Magic Flute, which Salieri tried to thwart - the New York production is at variance, not always wisely, with the original production at London's National Theater...
...agonizingly slow worker," Sendak has had an uncharacteristically gregarious year. He oversaw the printing of his new book, Outside Over There, to be published this spring, aided in the production of his off-Broadway musical Really Rosie, designed sets for the Houston Opera's version of The Magic Flute and is at work on the New York City Opera's American premiere of Janáček's The Cunning Little Vixen. In addition, he has been making appearances in bookstores to sign copies of a coffee-table retrospective, The Art of Maurice Sendak, by Selma...
Antonio Vivaldi: Works for Flute and Orchestra Vol. Ill (Jean Pierre Rampal and Joseph Rampal, flutes, with I Solisti Veneti, Claudio Scimone, director; Musical Heritage Society). Admirers of 18th century Italian music are indebted to Scimone and his group for their part in rekindling enthusiasm for the Mediterranean treasures of the period. The Rampals, of course, have been outstanding influences in the current popularity of classical flute. The mechanical clarity they bring to Vivaldi's refrains is another in a long line of Rampal victories through air power...