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...instruments involved are flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, and bassoon...
...your March 5 remarks on the Metropolitan Opera's new production of Mozart's The Magic Flute and the fact that it "was made possible by a grant from Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Jr.," your music critic added the comment: "She did not get her money's worth." May I add my comment-"Oh, yes, she did!" And what is even better, music lovers seem to be getting theirs...
...Beck, 30, a Dutch pianist who is sometimes called "the Flying Dutchess.'' cannot tell a fifth from a fipple flute, but that does not keep her from bopping along on the cool side of the street and leaving the sunny side to Dixielanders. When Pia took off after a vocal chorus in English last week at the Tijuana, a Baltimore nightclub, listeners cried. "Hey, this chick's not from Europe-she's from Brooklyn...
...remaining music on the program consisted of items on a smaller scale. John Austin '56 continued his laudable concentration on contrapuntal techniques in his Three Madrigals for flute, violin, 'cello and piano, and Five Fugal Pieces for two violins and viola. These pieces preserved his customary refined, conservative, low-voltage, post-Delius style--except the third of the latter group, which fell back into the style of Austin's teacher, Roy Harris. Even in the Madrigals, the linear emphasis extended to the piano parts, which maintained melodic interest at all times rather than just serving as harmonic background...
...clarinets and 'cello, and the second with an attractive arpeggiated piano background. It was a welcome relief, furthermore, to hear songs with the text set straight through instead of having the phrases repeated a dozen times. Thrown in for good measure were the four tuneful airs for soprano, violin, flute and 'cello that Addiss wrote for last fall's Eliot House production of The Tempest...