Word: flutes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hindemith: Kleine Kammermusik, Op. 24, No. 2 (Los Angeles Wind Quintet; Columbia: 4 sides). Kulturbolschewik Hindemith, in one of his earlier and lighter moods, wrote two ironic little suites for small ensembles, called them "Little Chamber Music, No. 1 and 2." No. 2, for flute, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon, is deftly tootled by a new group of Holly-woodmen...
...stuff their boots, Major Whistler saw 30,000 serfs sweating twelve hours a day to make his embankments symmetrical, heard his haughty Russian friends warn against ever giving the serfs a decent meal lest it upset their stomachs. In the evenings the Major solaced himself by playing the flute (he had been "Pipes" at West Point), but never on Mrs. Whistler's Sabbath. Despite Mrs. Whistler's disapproval, Deborah went to balls. Young Jimmie picked up a love of courtly manners...
With about 50 Yardlings aspiring for positions, the largest Freshman turnout in history, and with a much enlarged flute section, Manager Robert M. Pecbles '40, promised the best band musically for many seasons...
...Issue. Other Senators believe Jimmy Byrnes could charm snakes without a flute and with his eyes closed. That talent he needed now. For no man on the other side can orate with the power and clarity and command of Borah; no one on the other side is as agile and knowing a parliamentarian as Bennett Clark...
Leader of the Harlem jaunt, as of the entire congress, was tweedy, affable, red-mustached Carleton Sprague Smith,* 34, president of the American Musicological Society. Dr. Smith once studied the flute at the Paris Conservatoire, decided professional flute playing was too uncertain a job, though he had worked his way through Harvard by fluting at weddings, in theatres. Since 1931 Dr. Smith has headed the New York Public Library's music division, a clearing house for musical information used yearly by 50,000 people, from schoolgirls to Cecil B. DeMille...