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Herbie Mann (Bethlehem LP). A good cool flute is rare, but Flutist Mann plays one with a light, swinging accompaniment (drums, bass, guitar...
...shall never again be a contest judge. Too often they are downright absurd. Why insult and discourage 14, let us say, to honor or help one?" The last time he judged a contest. Piatigorsky said, he and his fellow judge, Violinist Jascha Heifetz, heard a singer, a flutist, a clarinetist and a composer. "Now how can one say who is best among different categories? Can you compare an orange and a bicycle? Can one say which is better? They were all good young artists." Piatigorsky insisted that each contestant get a prize. The outcome...
Russell Woollen's Flute Quartet was the only work to suffer in performance. While playing correctly enough, the instrumentalists--particularly the flutist--did little to give the quartet the dynamic treatment it needs to hold together. Father Woollen's individual musical ideas are melodious and carefully scored, but their arrangement is episodic. His phrases, moreover, have a structural symmetry that eventually becomes monotonous...
Gilda Hoffman '54 will play Mozart's Piano Sonata in A Minor, K. 310, Miss Hoffman will then accompany Dorothy Barnhouse '53, contralto, in three songs by Debussy. Milford's Sonata for Flute and Piano, will be played by Neville H. Fletcher 1G, flutist, and John Davison 2G, pianist. The program will conclude with a Movement from a Concerto in A Minor by Joel Mandelbaum '53, played on two pianos by the composer and Ann Besser...
...rehearsal had begun with Bach's Suite No. 2 for Flute and Strings--chosen, no doubt, to show off the new female flutist, Doriot Anthony. Her crystal clear tone and prodigious breath control clicited applause from both audience and orchestra...