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...JULIUS BAKER, 52, first flutist of the New York Philharmonic, last week played the intricate trills in Mendelssohn's oratorio Elijah as casually as another man might whistle for a taxi. A plump, dapper, matter-of-fact chap who looks and acts like a prosperous dentist, Baker is short on temperament but long on technique. He is the supreme mechanic of his instrument, and he produces what is surely the most glorious tone that ever came out of a flute: big, round, cool, white, radiant as a September moon...
...JEAN-PIERRE RAMPAL, 44, the most famous French flutist of the age, this week had a concert date in Paris to play Mozart's Concerto for Flute in D Major. A large man with a suave stage presence, Rampal cannot make the flute sing as Baker can, but he does make it speak with a wonderfully expressive French accent. He is the master showman of his instrument, and he charms an audience as a fakir charms a snake...
After 1847, when a German jeweler and flutist named Theobald Boehm perfected the sophisticated instrument now in use, the French eagerly adopted it. By World War I, flutists like Claude Paul Taffanel, Georges Barrere and Marcel Moyse had produced an impressive tradition of virtuosity. Oddly enough, the romantic composers could not find a place in their palette for the infinite colors of the flute, but Debussy and Ravel, the great impressionists, splashed patches of flute all over their sound paintings. Suddenly instrumentalists began to clamor for flute lessons. In Europe, the great teacher was Marcel Moyse; in the U.S. William...
...tonalities, or muffed passages. Yannatos's command of his orchestra's dynamics was admirable. The large entrances of the brass choir were thrilling. The trumpets handled a speedy passage with facile precision. And, of course, Daphnis et Chloe gave the HRO an opportunity to show off its unsurpassable solo flutist, Karen Monson...
...Magic Flutist. By far his most thrilling public work was the commission, assigned him by France's Minister of Culture André Malraux, to redecorate the ceiling at the Paris Opera. This vast pantheon to music swirls with 2,153 sq. ft. of ballet dancers, firebirds and blossoms banked like clouds in hot Midi colors that triumph over the surrounding Second Empire gilt moldings (TIME, Nov. 6). In the mural he painted the face of his old friend Malraux-the gesture of a Renaissance artist paying homage to his patron. But as a grateful adopted son of France, Chagall...