Word: fluting
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...simple fact that I don’t play much, I can listen to the rest of the orchestra even better. While I wait, my ear can tune in to any of the other sections, listening to the moving line in the cellos, the lilting, almost drunken-sounding flute solo or even a few notes in the lowest French horn part that are clear to me, though lost in the texture to most casual listeners. Listening from inside the orchestra is much different from sitting in the audience. It’s an experience I haven?...
...other night I called my high school music teacher for, of all things, castanet recommendations. He’s the one who encouraged me to switch to percussion in eighth grade when the flute got boring, and I was proud to tell him about HRO. “So you’re playing in the orchestra now?” he asked, knowing I had not been very serious about musical involvement in college. I told him yes, and that I was loving it, happy to note that we are the oldest continually performing symphony orchestra in the country...
...rhythms, Capercaillie’s reinterpretations of Gaelic jigs and ancient love songs have made them a unique fixture on the Scottish music scene. Singer Karen Matheson performs in both English and Gaelic, and is accompanied by seven band members playing everything from guitar, fiddle, accordion, and bouzouki to flute, pipes, and keyboards. 8 p.m. $22-28. Somerville Theatre, 55 Davis Sq., Somerville...
However, the music is clearly meant to complement the movie’s kung-fu schlock. Without the movie’s visual hi-jinks, the collection of songs comes across obscure and often bizarre: take Zamfir’s four-minute flute rendition of “The Lonely Shepard”, or “Crane / White Lightning” by RZA and Charles Berenstein, which sounds like the street fighter version of an Ennio Morricone piece...
...young Indian. For example, an ad campaign in the U.S. for Reebok Classics pictured typical figures of Americana, like a little boy with a baseball bat, clad in throwback simple sneakers. In India, Reebok replaced the lad with a grizzled, bearded snake charmer in a turban?with a flute and a woven, cobra-filled basket?and pristine white sneakers. Sales of Reebok footwear are growing at 30% a year. Rajeev Bakshi, chairman of Pepsico India, pushed the same idea a step further. "We took the variable of nationalism," he says. Earlier this year, for the Cricket World Cup, a sporting...