Word: fluting
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...evening began with Period Piece by Anthony Brandt. Written for flute, cello, percussion and piano, the work featured a variety of sounds for each instrument. The piece was at times contemplative and at times frenzied, using a wide range of pitches and dynamics. The soft flute was mournful and beautiful, complemented well by the winding and rumbling cello and piano. The different percussion sounds blended into the ensemble at certain moments and provided dramatic punches at other times. The thickly layered timbre and palpable rhythmic texture made for an intense listening experience, topped off with a burst of sound...
Quartet by Alexandros Kalogeras creates an engaging atmosphere of flute, bass clarinet, percussion and piano (keys and strings). The piece begins with a ringing pulse of percussion played by the pianist and flutist and soft, lush bass clarinet. Such stylized, ritualistic moments are followed by dramatic rushes of flute, clarinet, piano strings and swirling, pounding percussion. It is wonderful to listen to and a pleasure to watch...
Higbie combines world-class scholarship in poetic analysis with a lively interest in music--not a surprising combination since techniques such as rhythm and meter are common to both fields. Higbie began her academic career as a music major at Arizona State University, studying flute and piano...
...gephyromania) and by name (trichorrhexomania: pinching off one's hair; typomania: writing for publication). Similarly organized is a catalog of more than 200 phobias, which only begins to suggest why psychiatrists will never lack for patients. Fear of the Pope is papaphobia; fear of failure, kakorraphiaphobia; fear of the flute, aulophobia...
...Clemenza di Tito (to be released April 21 on Deutsche Grammophon Archiv). Here, a truly innovative approach (using period instruments) combines with a genuine reappraisal of the opera as a whole, and the result is nothing less than a revelation. Mozart worked on both Tito and the Magic Flute at the same time during the summer of 1791 and at great speed. Yet, while the music of the Magic Flute has met with universal praise almost since its premiere, that of Tito has been disparaged as the product of a sick and exhausted man, and as a hastily-written, half...