Word: fluting
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...prepared for President Truman. The walls were painted robin's-egg blue, there was a television set and a spinet. Said Pride: "Goodness gracious, what's going on in this boudoir?" Actually, the spinet was not a bad idea: Pride likes to make music, plays the piccolo, flute, harmonica and ocarina...
Roussel: Trio, Op. 40 (Doriot Anthony Dwyer, flute; Joseph de Pasquale, viola; Samuel Mayes, cello; Boston). Fine first-desk players of the Boston Symphony combine tones to wax some of the most cheerful chamber music of the century...
...black box-an Ampex tape recorder. The work, called Poem of Cycles and Bells, was composed by Manhattan Tape-sichordists Vladimir Ussachevsky and Otto Luening (TIME, Nov. 10, 1952). Described as "music trapped from beyond the range of the human ear," the solo part consisted of ordinary flute, piano and vocal sounds, recorded and then sometimes distorted beyond recognition by various mechanical and electronic means. The composition got notice as far away as Baltimore, where the Sun protested: "Down with Space Music . . . Give us a penny whistle." Sandwiched between Stravinsky's Firebird and Paul Creston's Symphony...
...Minh is a poet: Suddenly I hear the autumn flute sounding coldly like a signal on the screened hillside...
...architecture (abolishing the division between floors) which Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright later developed. In the 1930s he deeply influenced today's theater design by blueprinting expandable stages and semicircular projection screens. In the 1940s he painted ideally simple theater sets for No Exit and The Magic Flute, began experimenting with abstract sculpture constructed "to relax inside." More recently he completed a project for a "continuous house" (egg-shaped), featuring a prismatic mechanism which would flood the interior with different colors for each hour of the day. His latest brainchildren, which went on exhibition at Manhattan...