Word: fluting
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...there would be no more beer in the warm, smoke-blue Bierhauser; no more long walks from the military hotels in the mountains of the Austrian Semmering; no more regular hours at the interim job, sitting at a neat desk reading clean papers; no more Magic Flute, or Siegfried, or Rosenkavalier; no more leave...
While turbaned musicians, sitting cross-legged on the floor, thumped on queer-shaped drums with fingers, palms and sticks, clinked tiny cymbals and strummed the twangy, long-necked tambura, a flute spun its single thread of melody. In the traditional Indian dance-forms, the dancers moved hands, arms, shoulders, necks, more purposively than their feet. Lithe, hollow-cheeked Bhupesh Guha became the god of spring, his fluttering hand a bee alighting on a flower to drink honey. Willowy Sushila was the lotus-born Lakshmi, placing buds at the feet of Vishnu, her arms and hands moving with the deliberate grace...
...made in Rio by native groups under the platinum-haired maestro's guiding hand. Local orchestras play sambas (the best most danceable to date) and macumhas with dizzy cross rhythms. Pixinguingha, a 250-pound Negro medal winner of the Brazilian National Academy of Music, puts in some featherweight flute-playing. Two sides are emboladas: as folkish to Brazilians as Frankie and Johnny is to Americans. Of the fascinating chants by Indian singers, one has so strangely Gregorian a flavor that it seems to show the hand of the Portuguese fathers who braved the Amazon jungles three centuries...
...German publishers may still not be entirely out of the running. Last week one of their Manhattan agents, Associated Music Publishers, rushed out a new score, a photo-offset reprint of a Breitkopf & Härtel edition (Mozart's Magic Flute overture), selling for $8.50 and labeled "the only authorized American reprint." A.M.P. vowed to beat Hampton prices all along the line, at a loss if necessary...
...every man who cast an honest vote for Willkie" a mellow, flute-playing historian last week dedicated a book about Franklin Roosevelt. Called Roosevelt: Dictator or Democrat,* the book has for its author Gerald White Johnson, a 51-year-old editorial writer of the Baltimore Evening Sun. For its object the book has the aim of reducing the mistrust which many of the 22,000,000 Americans who voted against Roosevelt have for their President...