Word: soloed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gazzelloni's virtuosity in a composition for solo flute by Japanese Composer Kazuo Fukushima astounded the audience; he bent tones into microtones...
...best things, however, are his solo playlets. In one routine, he gets inside the human body and runs it like a ship: "Now hear this. Now hear this. All glands-secrete, secrete." Once an aspiring opera singer, Manna scores another sequence with his noteworthy tenor as he graduates the barber of Seville from barber school with a Phi Beta and has him refuse to part a man's hair from ear to ear lest people whisper into the fellow's nose. And in an inspired version of the death of Caesar, he has Caesar standing in the Forum...
...jazz orchestra; trumpet solo...
...wealthiest, most aristocratic landowning families in Viet Nam. Her maiden name was Tran Le Xuan, which means Beautiful Spring, and at her family's home in Hanoi she was waited on by 20 servants. Tutored at home, she never finished high school, took ballet lessons, once danced a solo at Hanoi's National Theater. She learned to speak French fluently, today mostly converses in that language, writes all her speeches in French before having them translated into Vietnamese...
...horns, goateed Kirk sweats aplenty, with instinctive showmanship and passion. When the steam is up, he is likely to blow a shrill Tarzan victory call on a siren-whistle that could be mistaken for a hunting horn. He delights in the unexpected. In the middle of a flute solo, he will pop a child's plastic song flute into his right nostril and trill out a brief duet. For a performer who took up the flute only three years ago, Kirk plays it with astonishing virtuosity. He can begin with a slow, throaty, lyrical blues, punctuate the piece with...