Word: fluting
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Something in all living things responds mysteriously to the sound of wind in the reeds. At the gentle pleasing of a flute, certain crabs glide out of their caves and sit listening under water. Mosquitoes of some breeds collect on people playing flutes. Lions fly into panic, dogs sink into bliss-though only when the flute is played in the key of C minor. In China, the musk deer is hunted with a Judas flute, which the deer meekly follows to its doom...
People respond to the flute too, and of late with special reason: the world is now entering the golden age of the flute. Never in history has "the metal nightingale" been so highly esteemed as a solo instrument; never in one period has it been played by so many virtuoso performers. In the U.S. and Europe, there are at least 30 first-rate flutists-London's Geoffrey Gilbert and William Bennett, Manhattan's John Wummer and Samuel Baron, Rochester's Joseph Mariano, Boston's Doriot Anthony Dwyer, Detroit's Albert Tipton, Marlboro's Louis...
...taxi. A plump, dapper, matter-of-fact chap who looks and acts like a prosperous dentist, Baker is short on temperament but long on technique. He is the supreme mechanic of his instrument, and he produces what is surely the most glorious tone that ever came out of a flute: big, round, cool, white, radiant as a September moon...
...JEAN-PIERRE RAMPAL, 44, the most famous French flutist of the age, this week had a concert date in Paris to play Mozart's Concerto for Flute in D Major. A large man with a suave stage presence, Rampal cannot make the flute sing as Baker can, but he does make it speak with a wonderfully expressive French accent. He is the master showman of his instrument, and he charms an audience as a fakir charms a snake...
...York Mayor John V. Lindsay, playing a flute, leads all the rats out of Harlem. Authoritative sources say Mao Tse-tung is dying after an attack of German measles. For the 21st time, Harvard fails to award an honorary degree to Harry S Truman. Honorary degrees are awarded to Margaret Truman: "She rose from obscurity to musical eminence," Thomas E. Dewey: "A stunning campaigner, a flawless Chief Executive," and to 22 people chosen at random from the Boston telephone directory...