Word: flutes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...single hearing. The Pieces for Prepared Piano by Christian Wolff, for example, seemed much more comprehensible than at the first performance; nonetheless their resources will have to be expanded, as the music is too static. The Three Songs, also by Wolff, were an evocative use of Soprano and Flute...
...YORK FLUTE CLUB was founded in 1920 by the late great Flutist Georges Barrere, regularly attracts some 150 loyal flute lovers to its Sunday afternoon concerts at Carl Fischer Hall. At each concert a different well-known flutist is invited to perform, either solo or in chamber-music ensembles, e.g., last week Claude Monteux, son of the conductor, accompanied by Composer Henry Brant at the piano, in a program of new and traditional works, including Milhaud's Sonatine, a Haydn Sonata in G and Brant's own Partita in C. Why there should be such a persistent demand...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). The Magic Flute, with Amara Hur ley, Sullivan, Uppman, Hines...
Operagoers at the opening of The Magic Flute at Prague's National Theater last week were scarcely settled in their seats when they were startled by three thunderclaps from the drums. The curtain rose on a Tamino dressed in a flamboyant sports outfit. He was presently joined by the Queen of the Night, who arrived in a carriage drawn by several men in tail coats and top hats. Thus prepared, the audience was scarcely surprised to see Sarastro roaming the Temple of Wisdom in a business suit, or later sitting on Pamina's bed in a modern bedroom...
...horseback rode into Mokhimpur to interrupt a scene of nightmare revelry. The men dressed only in loin cloths, the women with their saris tucked up high above their knees, the Baghbhans were doing a wild dance around their sadhu, who himself was playing a screeching air on the flute. As the police approached, the dancing stopped, and the dancers, seizing spades, sticks and axes, raced screaming to attack them. Two policemen and their commander were hacked to death, their ears lopped off and their eyeballs gouged out by the frenzied villagers. Badly bleeding, the other three escaped, but even...