Word: fluting
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...world, they might as well do so at home. Instead of having their boys hanging around the local pool hall, they installed a pool table of their own. On Sunday evenings the family gathered for a weekly concert, with mother at the piano, the boys playing the clarinet, flute and French horn, and father McElroy singing...
...dreamy, idealized mythological figures. But almost all ignore India's primitive, bold village art. Not so Jamini Roy, who has drawn much inspiration from it and combined it with a slick modernity. His tempera panels show village girls, Bengali dancers, mothers and children, such scenes as Gosto, the flute-playing God of Love, and his friends tending the cows, all of them almost toylike figures with flat, stylized bodies and immense almond eyes...
...band seemed to be playing musical chairs. The percussion man ran back & forth between kettle drums, cymbal and a toy drum, jangled some bells on the way, hammered a xylophone and, with evident pleasure, whammed a huge Chinese gong. Saxophone players switched to flutes, clarinets and even recorders; Sauter himself picked up a kazoo and produced sounds very much like bagpipes. Again the slate and another tune: The Doodletown Fifers. Two men played the piccolo, two the baritone saxophone, one the tenor saxophone. Then the three sax players put down their instruments and whistled. By the time they picked them...
...Stravinsky Octet is scored for flute, clarinet, bassoons, trumpets and trombone. In its exploration of the sonorous possibilities of an unusual chamber group, its purpose is similar to that of Bach Brandenburg Concerti and of various Mozart Serendates and Divertimenti. Its importance in modern music, however, lies in being one of the first works in the "neo-classic" style. Hearing the Octet today in light of all that has followed it in the past 30 years, its dry metrically incisive, often mocking tone seems no longer revolutionary. Yet it still remains a fresh, thoroughly delightful work...
...saffron-robed Buddhist monks are everywhere. Wearing scarlet jackets, gold and silver beads and bracelets and flowers in their hair, the Laotian women are graceful and attractive and given to music, dancing and proverbs. At nightlong parties, they dance the Lap Ton to a harmonious, high-pitched, 17-hole flute called the Ken. It is said that French officers, after a tour of duty in Laos, remain forever afterward vaguely inattentive and quietly dissolute in manner. But last week the French had put aside love and proverbs for a hard look at Laos' defenses: under King Sisavang Vong...