Word: woodwind
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...people on the globe, and been grasped at by music lovers as a reason for liking Sibelius. Yet if one would arrive at a comprehensive appreciation of his music, it is impossible to take the remark seriously. True, in the symphonies and tone-poems, there are passages of a woodwind complexion, of a curious rough-hewn quality, which have been traditionally seized on as the hall-mark of Sibelius's idiom. But the great moments in his great works are not this "incarnation of the fjords of Finland." The great works breathe a richness and a warmth such as cold...
...Symphony Orchestra (Decca Little Symphony, David Mendoza conducting; Decca: 22 sides, with explanatory pamphlets). Four albums of pieces in which the members of the string, woodwind, brass and percussion families are easily identifiable...
...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...