Word: flutes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...adventurous artist reach when his sailing ship is dashed by storm against the knees of Greenland's icy mountains? Artist Rockwell Kent, thus shipwrecked last summer (TIME. July 29), told last week what he had reached for: his wife's picture, his father's silver flute, his own good bowie knife. Upon what does the marooned artist then paint the epic of his wanderings? Artist Kent told that too: upon bedsheets furnished by great hearted Greenland Danes...
...Whiting, at the harpsichord, will be assisted by George Barrere, flute; Mariana Lowell, violin; and Genevieve Hughel, violoncello. They will be heard in the following program of seventeenth and eighteenth century music: 1. Golden Sonata, F major Purcell Flute, Violin, Violoncello, and Harpsichord 2. Prelude and Invention, C major Bach Polonaise, G minor Bach Air and Variations, E major Handel Alla Turca Harpsichord Mozart 3. Airs and Dances Flute Gluck 4. Sonata, G major Violoncello Locatelli 5. Concerts Royaux Couperin and Rameau and Harpsi- Flute, Violin, Violoncello, chord...
...Whiting at the Harpsichord will be assisted by Mr. George Barriere flute; Miss Marianna Lowell violin; and Miss Genevieve Houghel violin cello. The concert will be open free of charge to officers and students of the University...
...17th Century. It has a pear-shaped body built of pine or cedar staves pieced together like the crescent divisions of a melon. Its neck (lengths varied) has a fretted keyboard over which are stretched perhaps four, perhaps as many as 24 gut strings. Lutanists (musicians who play the flute are flautists; musicians who play the lute are Internists or lutenists) plucked or twanged the strings either with their fingers or a plectrum. Because of its spoon-shaped body the instrument cannot be confused with the modern guitar which has a flat bottom joined to the sound board by separate...
...paintings by Derain include "Pheasants and Table," 1928; "The Flute Player," 1915; "Back of a Woman's Head," 1928; and "Still Life," 1910 as well as a number of drawings and water colors...