Word: flutists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...commonsensical candidness has endeared Solti to musicians; that endearment goes a long way toward explaining his success. Without the loyalty and respect of his musicians, no conductor can long preside over an orchestra-much less produce great music. Musicians are notoriously independent, as the old saw about the French flutist demonstrates. Ordered by a conductor to play in a certain style, the musician said: "Very well, I'll play it his way at rehearsal, but just wait till the concert. After all, man ami, it's my flute." With Solti, it is different. Says Orchestre de Paris Flutist...
...musicians ever look at a conductor in exactly the same way. Where Friedman sees the metaphysical and Nilsson a mellower Solti, Flutist Debost sees the diabolical: "There is something of the wolf or the Hun about Solti. As he conducts, his eyes turn into cracks, his ears become pointed, and you can sort of imagine him riding a horse bareback across the steppes...
Throughout the year, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston produces an impressive array of chamber concerts. On Tuesday the 10th, baroque flutist Carol Epple will lead a program at the Museum. She is a very good player and can prove that ancient instruments do not have to be played out of tune. Incidentally, admission to the Museum is free on Tuesdays from 5 until 9: a good chance to look around before hearing the concert...
CABOT HALL LIVING ROOM. Nancy Toff, flutist, and others, concertos by Vivaldi and Leclair, March...
Montezuma has, as Associated Artist's press releases modestly put it, "an unusual libretto by Frederick the Great." Graun was the flutist-emperor's court composer, and his duties included writing opera seria, all of which were naturally forgotten when baroque opera went out of style. The Associated Artists have resurrected Montezuma, with the castrati parts down an octave so that men can sing them...