Word: soloed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week the Boschaps performed a rich, tastefully executed program at Manhattan's Town Hall. In Benjamin Britten's Fantasy for Oboe and Strings, the trio of strings spun delicately interlocking webs around the oboe's sober solo; Francis Poulenc's sprightly Sonata for Horn, Trumpet and Trombone was charmingly carried off like the playful banterings of back-fence gossips. The evening's major piece, Schubert's String Quintet in C, grew out of the stage like a tree of sound, alive and shapely in every line. The musicians played as it is seldom...
People respond to the flute too, and of late with special reason: the world is now entering the golden age of the flute. Never in history has "the metal nightingale" been so highly esteemed as a solo instrument; never in one period has it been played by so many virtuoso performers. In the U.S. and Europe, there are at least 30 first-rate flutists-London's Geoffrey Gilbert and William Bennett, Manhattan's John Wummer and Samuel Baron, Rochester's Joseph Mariano, Boston's Doriot Anthony Dwyer, Detroit's Albert Tipton, Marlboro's Louis...
...last ten years, flute repertory has been strenuously improved and enlarged-some 5,000 selections are now catalogued. In the same time, the number of amateur flute players in the U.S. has more than tripled. Says Flutist Baker: "The flute at last is taking center stage as a solo instrument. Who knows? In the next ten years, it may even catch up with the violin...
...questionable 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...
...romp-that-never-was started on schedule, when Ben Smith capitalized on an Eli defenseman's gaffe and scored from 20 feet after a minute and 18 seconds of play. For Harvard, the rest of the period was missed opportunities; for Yale, it was a tying goal on a solo drive by Pete Markle...