Word: fluting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Steady Job Without Pay. Charles Dawes's bedrock integrity never led him into a silly contempt for money. In 1880, when his father was running for Congress, young Charley, 15, startled his staunch Republican family by parading past their Marietta, Ohio home tootling a flute in the opposition band. It was, he explained airil when he got home, a purely professional appearance for which he had received one silver dollar...
Caldwell Titcomb's music for the flute and drum provides a highly effective setting for the poetry, and Louis Begley has done an excellent job abridging the plays. In all it is an excellent job, one that should be repented often with other pieces which might fit into a similar staging...
Gilda Hoffman '54 will play Mozart's Piano Sonata in A Minor, K. 310, Miss Hoffman will then accompany Dorothy Barnhouse '53, contralto, in three songs by Debussy. Milford's Sonata for Flute and Piano, will be played by Neville H. Fletcher 1G, flutist, and John Davison 2G, pianist. The program will conclude with a Movement from a Concerto in A Minor by Joel Mandelbaum '53, played on two pianos by the composer and Ann Besser...
...with Trills. The test could hardly have pleased Lincoln Kirstein more. Mezzo-Soprano Bible, whose best roles heretofore have been a couple of light-hearted male impersonations (Cherubino in Figaro, Octavian in Rosertkavalier), never looked prettier. She trilled out her coloratura passages like a flute, and also shook the rafters with a few stunning fortissimos. Baritone George Gaynes, who is Rosalind Russell's leading man in Broadway's Wonderful Town, took a night off to play the part of the prince's scene-stealing valet, and indulge in some jaunty clowning. Biggest joke of all was John...
Mozart Bass Arias (Fernando Corena; London). Mozart's writing for basso has never been touched for purity of line and directness of expression, and these six songs (from Figaro, Don Giovanni, Magic Flute) are among his best. Young Basso Corena has a brilliant, resonant tone, gives the music spirited, if not highly polished, interpretations...