Word: flutists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
...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...
CARL PHILIPP EMANUEL BACH: SIX SONATAS FOR FLUTE AND HARPSICHORD (Nonesuch). In bringing back the solo flute, the baroque revival has also headlined a brilliant French flutist, Jean-Pierre Rampal, who seems to have enough breath to tackle the entire 18th century output for his instrument. Turning from J. S. Bach and Mozart, Rampal has recently recorded music by Telemann, Pergolesi and others, as well as these melodic and graceful entertainments by Bach fils, accompanist for that royal flutist, Frederick the Great...
NIRVANA (Atlantic). Flutist Herbie Mann and Pianist Bill Evans stage a slowdown, giving a performance that is either extremely cool or simply congealed. There are some pleasant Oriental overtones but scarcely a beat, let alone a pulse, in most of the pieces (Willow Weep for Me, Mann's Nirvana); Cole Porter's I Love You is a cheerful exception...