Word: fluting
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Despite how easily this non-Celt assumed her place among the flute and pipe players, Harvard students are not lining up in droves to listen or perform these traditional jigs and reels...
...inhibit enjoyment of its Dupri-produced pop gems. “It’s Like That,” the follow-up single to “We Belong Together,” is a consummate club-banger: Dupri relies on little more than an Indian flute loop and an arrhythmic drum machine beat to craft an incredibly danceable track. The song’s beat is so hot that its occasional lapses into lyrical absurdity—at one point Carey opines, “these chickens is ash and I’m lotion?...
...fresh production of Mozart's The Magic Flute might change that. The timing, at least, seems blessed: In 1956, the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust decided to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Mozart's birth by staging four of his best-known works, including The Magic Flute, and a company was born. Fifty years later, they have repatriated one of their finest exports, director David Freeman, to launch a new version combining vocal firepower (Amelia Ferrugia, Jaewoo Kim, Emma Matthews) with the aerial acrobatics of Legs on the Wall. Did someone mention crossover appeal? "You can't stay 19th century," says...
...first in Sydney and later in London as part of the English National Opera, he earned his stripes as an avant-gardist, famous for stripping his singers - literally, as in his 1988 Cos? Fan Tutte set on a beach. (Amelia, Jaewoo and Emma, fear not.) But when The Magic Flute opens in Sydney this week, their talents will be similarly exposed. "I wanted to make the magic of the piece human and physical," Freeman says, "rather than just stage effects...
...details will make all the difference when his vision is unveiled, and Freeman hopes it will share with Shakespeare the quality of being "both spontaneous and inevitable." But audiences (and Opera Australia) will be wanting more than that when the curtain rises this week. They're hoping Freeman's Flute will turn Mozart's music into theatrical magic...