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Word: lutes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...performing with consummate skill on four diverse sizes of recorder as well as on an old wooden cross flute--all of which have utterly different playing techniques from the modern flute. The other musicians were Phyllis Olson, tenor and bass viola da gamba; and Daniel Heartz, harpsichord and lute...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Concerts of the Week | 8/2/1956 | See Source »

Authentic Renaissance and Baroque instruments will perform the works of these composers. Performers for the concert are Daniel Heartz, harpsichord and Renaissance lute; Phyllis Olson, tenor and bass viola da gamba; and Howard Brown '51, cross flute and recorders...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chamber Music at Paine Hall Tuesday | 7/26/1956 | See Source »

...interpolated by Olivier, is magically effective; she says but four words ("Good morrow, my lord"), but she hangs in the offing like a sensuous portrait by Rubens, and fills the court with just the kind of sexual music Shakespeare meant when he spoke of "the lascivious pleasing of a lute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Mar. 12, 1956 | 3/12/1956 | See Source »

Louis Untermeyer will read "Orpheus and His Lute," and Caryl P. Haskins will deliver his oration, "Science and the Whole Man." Van Wyck Brooks '08, president of the chapter, will preside...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Untermeyer, Haskins and Brooks Address Phi Beta Kappa Meeting This Morning | 6/13/1955 | See Source »

...stage of the Grand Music Hall of Basel, Switzerland one day last week sat two strange contraptions. One resembled a telephone switchboard with a set of loudspeakers attached. The other looked like a small spinet but was connected to two loudspeakers and a lute-shaped soundbox. The gadgets were known as the "Mixturtrautonium" and the "Ondes Martenot." Both produce more or less musical tones electronically, and they were to be featured soloists in a concert for the delegates to the first International Congress of Electronic Music and Musique Concr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Electronic Medley | 6/6/1955 | See Source »

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