Word: fluting
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Beneath tents and armory roofs, in airplane hangars and convention halls, U.S. industry's managers gathered last week for their annual rites of spring: the yearly stockholders' meeting. When the news was good-as it generally was-sunlight and flute music filled the scene, but when it was bad, there were squalls and sour notes...
...Included are the Overture to Mozart's The Magic Flute (Nov. 5, 1947): the Finale to Beethoven's Ninth Symphony (March 27, 1952); the Brindisi, or drinking song from Act I of Verdi's La Traviata (Nov. 28, 1946); and assorted other excerpts from Acts I and II of Traviata (Nov. 28, Nov. 30, 1946). Released by the conductor's son Walter, the disk is not available in record stores, can be bought only with a contribution (minimum: $25) to the Musicians Foundation, Inc., 131 Riverside Drive, New York City 24-a charitable organization to which...
...session with Haile Selassie's Imperial Guard Band, the octet brought down the house playing I Can't Do It and You Pretty Baby. Mann himself so delighted the King of Buganda's royal flutist in a joint jam session that he received a flute as a prize. Many a fan asked: "Where did you learn our rhythms...
...grandeur of grand opera, the Americanness of American musical comedy, the prejudice against modern music, and half a dozen other topics - all tending to disprove Bernstein's own thesis that "the only way one can really say anything about music is to write music." To Bernstein, the flute included by Beethoven in an early version of the Fifth Symphony's opening is like "a delicate lady at a club smoker"; The Black Crook, an early musicomedy, is held together with "spit and chewing gum"; tonality is analogous to a baseball diamond (with home plate as the tonic note...
Illness prevented one of the two scheduled pianists from performing, with a resulting insecurity that will hopefully be rectified by this afternoon (along with a somewhat trigger-happy light board technician). Cecelia Hopkins played the flute obbligatos with assurance...