Word: fluting
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...soloist, Neal Zaslaw and Richard Oldberg, both possess extremely fine techniques, which enabled them to handle easily the involved passage-work with which Mozart fills out his instrumental concertos. Zaslaw, playing the first Flute Concerto, in G, used a tone which, while more breathy than some tastes prefer, is even and manageable enough for delicate articulation. Oldberg's tone also veers away from the "pure" school, toward the specifically brassy sound...
...there is that voice. It is not trained (he does not read music), and Belafonte subjects it to growls, yelps and shouts that appall the opera stars who come to hear him. The voice can become gutty as a trumpet, musky with melancholy, or high and tremulous as a flute. It may take on the high, clipped inflection of the West Indies, the open-throated drawl of the bayou country, the softly rounded burr of the Scotch borderland...
...warmly singing tone a fine quality of darkling brilliance, free of the reediness that afflicts many less gifted players. Both, when the occasion requires, can coax from the oboe inflections that, in the words of one 18th century oboe enthusiast, "go as easie and as soft as the Flute...
...Constant's greatest fear is that he might "stay on the road along which everything has already been said.'' In an effort to avoid that fate, he has produced such bizarre works as High Voltage, a ballet that features a flashing pylon on the stage. The Flute Player, which tells the story of the Pied Piper against a tape of a children's chorus played at double speed. Three years ago his opera Imagery of Saint-Michel created a scandal in Venice, chiefly because the action takes place in a prizefight ring, with Archangel Michael represented...
Stephen Addis' "Three Duets" (described as "Slim adolesence that a nymph has stripped") might have been stripped to two duets or even one, since the program was long enough already. Consisting of dances to flute and clarinet, the duets were too much of a good thing...