Word: fluting
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Russell Woollen's Flute Quartet was the only work to suffer in performance. While playing correctly enough, the instrumentalists--particularly the flutist--did little to give the quartet the dynamic treatment it needs to hold together. Father Woollen's individual musical ideas are melodious and carefully scored, but their arrangement is episodic. His phrases, moreover, have a structural symmetry that eventually becomes monotonous...
Soprano Victoria de los Angeles, though she is only 30, made a matronly-looking Marguerite, but her singing was faultless as a flute. For a man who has just been rejuvenated by the devil, Swedish Tenor Jussi Bjoerling looked pudgy, but he sang with Gallic smoothness. Conductor Monteux. with no apparent effort, achieved a nearly perfect balance between orchestra and singers...
...first opened her mouth, never uttered an unpleasant sound. She ranged with practiced ease from a fragile, little-girl voice in such songs as Schubert's Die Vogel to big, dramatic tones in Hugo Wolf's Kennst Du das Land. She could soar high into the flute altitudes with the same rich quality that she used in her cello-like middle register. Before her program was half over, the audience was convinced; by the end, it was shouting its approval...
Abandoning the quintet medium bristly, three of the musicians performed Walter Piston's Trio for flute, clarinet, and has soon. This is an excellent work and shows that a composer who understands woodwinds as well as Professor Piston can attain a greater subtlety and variety of effects from three instruments than, for example, Persichetti could from five in the Pastoral which was performed immediately before the Piston work. One of the most interesting features of the Trio is its experimentation with the colors which can be attained by fast and soft figurations in the flute and clarinet with the bassoon...
...loyalty to the Anglican Church makes Nock vehemently deny the yoga legend. "I have never practiced yoga nor played the flute as that person in Esquire wrote," Nock corrects. And indeed it is difficult to imagine flute music from Nock. His voice, a low rumble punctuated with periodic jovial blasts, would suit a rough rider...