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...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 Moyse-and among them there are four who may well belong among the great flute players of all time...
Beethoven: Serenade, Op. 25 (John Wummer, flute; Alexander Schneider, violin; Milton Katims, viola; Columbia 2 sides LP). An early, infectiously light-hearted work for an unusual assortment of instruments; the players here make it sound good. Recording: excellent...
Beethoven: Serenade in D, Op. 25 (John Wummer, flute; Alexander Schneider, violin; Milton Katims, viola; Columbia, 6 sides). Beethoven the charmer, instead of Beethoven the thunderer, in a performance that misses none of his smiles and gestures. Recording: good...
Last week the Flute Club held its regular monthly meeting in Manhattan's new City Center of Music and Drama. Some 100 flutists and their friends wandered about the auditorium, filling the air with a high-pitched and rarefied din. On a platform at a piano, Mrs. John Wummer, wife of the New York Philharmonic's first flutist, served accompaniments to those who wanted them, as a hostess might serve canapés. Near the door stood one of the club's nonflutist members, one Edwin Rosenblum of Brooklyn, who loathes the flute but cannot resist...
...wind players. Trumpeter Harry Glantz, U.S. champion in his class, was promptly snapped up by the rival NBC Orchestra. Massive Flutist John Amans, famed for his ability to make his tootling instrument boom like a church organ, was retired, replaced by the NBC Orchestra's Pennsylvania-born John Wummer. World's champion French Horn Player Bruno Jaenicke, suffering from a heart ailment, prepared to spend the rest of his career sitting on the sidelines while a younger man, Rudolph Puletz Jr., did most of his puffing...