Word: woodwind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Koussevitzky's Symphony Hall program for Friday afternoon and Saturday evening will be devoted entirely to Richard Strauss and Prokefloff. To the Thursday selections will be added the German composer's grandiose "Death and Transfiguration," which makes skillful use of cerie woodwind passages and muted syncopation in the strings to build up a tension yielding only to the C major chords of the brasses in the finale...
Oldest college symphony orchestra in this nation, the Pierian Sodality of 1808 is now announcing its annual fall tryouts open to all members of the University who can play on any stringed, woodwind, brass, or percussion instrument...
...child can master it. Last week at a Swarthmore concert the oscillion made its world debut, playing the long clarinet passages in Cesar Franck's D Minor Symphony without a mishap. Listeners thought the oscillion lacked color, was a little twangier in tone, otherwise indistinguishable from the woodwind it replaced...
...Philadelphia Orchestra there are two onetime army officers who fought on opposite sides during the War. Both are first violinists. One is Hungarian George Beimel, the other Russian Yasha Kayaloff. Flutist William Kincaid and Marcel Tabuteau, first oboist, make a woodwind pair outstanding when the Philadelphians undertake Debussy. Flutist Kincaid trains vigorously each summer at Lake Sebago, Me. Leon Frengut, a viola player, takes his recreation at the racetracks. Samuel Lifschey, leader of the viola section, has been a six-day bicycle racer, a dentist, a pharmacist, an engineer. Yarnspinner of the Orchestra is Trombonist Eddie Gerhard. Bill Greenberg...
...French horn playing to the necessity of passing ' breath "evenly through some 16 feet of tubing, a matter of sustaining tone, a more fundamental problem is that of even starting the designated tone owing to the multiplicity of overtones which may accidentally take precedence. Turning to the two woodwind musicians to whom you refer as "oboe players," actually only one ot them is playing the oboe. The other is playing the English horn, readily distinguished from the oboe by the metal pipe extension of the reed mouthpiece and the wider spacing of keys. Incidentally this musician gives a fair...