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...living reproach to Aristotle, Cherubini and Schnozzola is the Flute Club of New York. For 24 solid years, ever since the bearded, quizzical French flutist Georges Barrère founded it, the sodality has met regularly for the sole purpose of discussing, playing and listening to the flute. A few years ago the club erected a flutistic milestone by presenting the U.S. premiére of Henry Brandt's Concerto for Flute with an Orchestra of Ten Flutes...
Last week the Flute Club held its regular monthly meeting in Manhattan's new City Center of Music and Drama. Some 100 flutists and their friends wandered about the auditorium, filling the air with a high-pitched and rarefied din. On a platform at a piano, Mrs. John Wummer, wife of the New York Philharmonic's first flutist, served accompaniments to those who wanted them, as a hostess might serve canapés. Near the door stood one of the club's nonflutist members, one Edwin Rosenblum of Brooklyn, who loathes the flute but cannot resist...
There are some 30,000 professional flutists in the U.S., and nobody knows how many amateurs. Their profusion is due in part to the fact that the flute is the easiest of all wind instruments to play, and in part to the untiring evangelism of the Flute Club's founder and president, 67-year-old Georges Barrère. Flutist Barrère, one of the few surviving devotees of the gaiter, the Prince Albert and the imperial beard, was brought to the U.S. by Walter Damrosch in 1905. Son of a Bordeaux grocer and alumnus of Paris...
Charles T. Griffes: Poem for Flute and Orchestra (Eastman-Rochester Symphony, Howard Hanson conducting, with Joseph Mariano, flutist; Victor). Griffes was a music teacher at the Hackley School for Boys in Tarrytown, N.Y. Since he died in 1920, at the age of 35, critics have rated his small, carefully tooled output among the finest U.S. compositions. His Poem is fragile and impressionistic and is certainly one of his best works...
...young Yardlings who formed the society on March 6, 1808 "for their mutual improvement in instrumental music." But the gigantic number of six was not to be the steady diet of the society which, in the forlorn year of 1832, dropped to a single member, a faithful and unsung flutist, who managed to graduate from the University, practice, and keep enough of the Society's records intact to preserve its title of being the oldest orchestra in the United States...