Word: fluting
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...woman playing first flute in the Boston Symphony? "A very serious matter," wrote Critic Rudolph Elie in the Herald, "and I am not a little dismayed by it." But there she was, when the orchestra opened its season last week, her flute tones firm, pure and accurate...
Perky, dimpled Doriot Anthony, 30, knows as well as anybody that the major orchestras eye female instrumentalists with suspicion (unless they play the harp†). She has held such positions as second flute in Washington's National Symphony and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, first flute in the NBC Standard (Los Angeles) and Hollywood Bowl Symphonies...
...opening concert, Conductor Munch nodded approvingly over her solo bits in Beethoven's Fourth Symphony. The Boston Globe critic was even more approving; he pronounced her "a true find." Scowled the Herald's Elie: "I find it difficult to accept the notion that any lady flute player could ever succeed Georges Laurent either as an artist or as an object of such veneration among...
Griffes: Poem (Julius Baker, flute; orchestra conducted by Daniel Saidenberg; Decca). U.S. Composer Charles Griffes was influenced by both German and French romantic composers before he began to develop his own style, but he died in 1920 (at 36), before he reached full recognition. Poem, a high-flown fantasy of French impressionist extraction, gets a stunning performance from one of Manhattan's finest flutists...
...much interested in opera, but I thought it would be fun"), was more surprised than anybody else when he won. Since a contract with the company was part of the prize, "that sort of threw me into opera." He gradually worked into leading roles: Papageno in the Magic Flute, Golaud in Pelléas and Mélisande...