Word: fluting
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...fellow townsmen seethed. But if his concours goes, the loss will be Kerkrade's: instead of listening to the pick of the world's brasses, the town will have to settle for relative quiet and its own supply of twelve brass bands, 18 male choirs, nine flute, mandolin and drum bands, and one amateur symphony orchestra...
Wednesday, August 15: 8 p.m. Theatre - Chamber Music Concert Nova Arte Trio with Graffman & Dwyer. Prokofiev: Flute Sonata, Op. 94 - Mozart: Divertimento K. 563 - Brahms: Piano Quartet...
...King himself has failed to convince Albany's Negroes. For one thing, many Negroes throughout the South suspect that too much success has drained him of the captivating fervor that made him famous. Says a Negro: "Martin comes in wearing his spiritual halo and blows on his flute and the money comes pouring in. But he doesn't even speak for the Baptist ministry, let alone 20 million Negroes...
...called himself "the first servant of the state," was as much a tyrant as any monarch of the 18th century, but he liked to say of himself that he was "philosopher by instinct and politician by duty." He was also a patron of the arts. He played the flute to the accompaniment of one of Johann Sebastian Bach's sons; he wrote indifferent poetry under the tutelage of his sometime friend Voltaire; he was an avid collector of paintings and sculpture. In affairs of state, he was Prussian to the bone, but in painting he admired what was foreign...
...soon landed a spot with Sweden's Royal Opera, was invited to La Scala. In the course of singing about Europe and at the Met, he has picked up over 70 operatic roles, many of the non-Italian wing, including Grigori in Boris Godunov, Tamino in The Magic Flute - and most notably the title role in Gounod's Faust. His voice is not par ticularly large, but it is passionate, beau tifully placed, and as finely responsible to the shape of the music as any in opera...