MARSHFIELD COMMENTARY: Summers finale Oct 9, 2009
Silver and brown flutes of folded leaves are praying a chorus of praise for their Divine Artist. Cinnamon, clove and ginger are colors that make a bouquet of trees. (Marshfield Mariner, MA)
Holliston PTSA news Oct 6, 2009
It was an exciting afternoon Sept. 9 as nearly 150 fourth-grade Miller students received brand new instruments and are now making their first attempts at sound and figuring out how to fit tiny fingers around the shiny keys of trumpets, flutes, clarinets, trombones and saxophones, or the smooth maple of drum sticks. We look forward to hearing their progress at the winter and spring concerts. (Holliston Tab, MA)
Climate Change Equals Culture Change in Andes Oct 6, 2009
A halo rims the tallest crag, and as the sun appears, music bursts from scores of flutes, drums, accordions and saxophones. Moments later the air fills with the sound of running , as the skin of ice melts, freeing the rivulets. (Scientific American)
‘Latin Music USA’ traces cultural impact Oct 4, 2009
We waded in looking at norteo, Peruvian flutes, and bossa nova, Deane says, laughing at the early prospect of navigating the myriad themes and subgenres. Eventually we decided that we were working with fusions. (Boston Globe)
Small wonders Oct 4, 2009
A minute later, the man brings out two flutes of champagne. Just like that. (Boston Globe)
Grilled buffalo on the menu Sep 30, 2009
Items like dream catchers, flutes, bows and arrows, gar jewelry and bead jewelry will be available for purchase. The vendors will include Margo Rosas, a part Native American craftsperson from Lacombe who uses natural materials and processes to fashion beaded jewelry, leather pouches and belts, and other distinctive and unusual items. (Bogalusa Daily News, LA)
Kick back at Patagonia Lake State Park. Sep 30, 2009
The heart of the 21st annual event is the juried arts-and-crafts show, which features items ranging from Native American jewelry and handmade flutes to pottery and sculpture to stained glass and raku ware to goat's milk body products and emu oil. Nearly everything is for sale, with prices to fit every budget, from just a few dollars for items such as handmade soaps to several thousand dollars for select paintings or sculptures. (AZCentral -- Travel)
Aurora celebrates fall, Native American roots Sep 20, 2009
Just as each social danced performed is unique to its dancers, so is each of Dan Hill's flutes completely different from one another. A woven basket contained Hill's flutes, carved from cherry wood, apple wood, red cedar and walnut ... Each wood gives a different sound, Hill said, but even flutes made of the same tree will sound different. (Auburn Citizen, NY)
More of this story Sep 20, 2009
They offer payment plans to help make instruments, such as 660 flutes and more than 1,000 alto saxophones, more affordable. Rossi Music is also signing up students, in some cases a second generation, for piano, guitar, woodwinds and brass lessons. (Westerly Sun, RI)
CHS band students win 130 medals at state solo contest Sep 14, 2009
CHS students earning a second division silver medal are flutes: Hannah Allen, Neha Dubey, Morgan Harnois, Christine Kim, Sam Kim, Ava Lindstrom, Shin Loo, Allison Lyon, Isabel Olivas, Sarah Omar, Ashley Park, Lisa Richardson and Jennifer Song; piccolo: Morgan Mosely and Brenna Walden; oboe: Avery Griffiths, Vicky Kao, Sarah Pye and Helena You; clarinet: Hailey Armstrong, Danny Jung, Lauren Lyssy, Emily Miznazi, Chandi Patel, Shermin Punjwani, Kathryn Pye, Richard Song, Holly Tallon, Matt Walker,... (McKinney Courier-Gazette, TX)
What going on in Athens: Fall edition Sep 13, 2009
Performance features 6-foot long ancestral Taiko drum, bamboo flutes and dance. (706) 542-4400, www. (Athens Banner-Herald)
Gallagher: Drummer 'draws' upon talent to build band (29) Sep 13, 2009
Powell spent time in an art class last spring tinkering with a Lawton-Bronson sign featuring music notes, flutes, trumpets and more. He's got two giant bookend Eagles (the school mascot) blasting away on a tuba. (Sioux City Journal, IO)
Making back-to-school gear last longer Sep 13, 2009
Extended plans can be critical for the most popular band and orchestra instruments, like trombones, clarinets, flutes and more. Choose extended service or replacement plans that will either repair instruments or replace them. (Daytona Beach News Journal -- Local)
Bars & Clubs Sep 10, 2009
You can get everything from Bosnian wine, to bottles from small California producers to a bottle of Colt 45 for two (it comes in a bucket of ice with two champagne flutes). O Bar en. (Los Angeles Downtown News, CA)
Musicians flex creative muscles on iPhones Sep 9, 2009
Among the tens of thousands of applications created for Apple Inc.'s iPod Touch and iPhone are more than 100 that transform the devices into music makers: synthesizers, guitars and drum machines that allow you to tap out rhythms and melodies, as well as trombones, flutes and ocarinas activated by blowing into the microphone. Professional musicians are increasingly embracing the more sophisticated digital instruments, using them in live performances, DJ sets and recordings. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Technology)
For a dark topic, White turns to black humour Sep 7, 2009
Clinking flutes of Moet in the Emirates suite were Judy Romano, Ann Peacock, Emma Freedman, Brodie Harper and Christine Santic, the ex-wife of Makybe Diva tuna king Tony Santic, who happened to be ensconced next door in the chairman's suite with pregnant partner Deslee Kennedy. Awkward, that. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
British Library opens music vault Sep 5, 2009
International recordings range from the sounds of stamping tubes and nose flutes to recordings of African rumba, calypso and blues. The British Library Sound Archive is one of the largest sound archives in the world and holds over one million discs and 200,000 tapes. (BBC News -- Europe)
Instrument donations sought for Plano ISD music students Sep 3, 2009
All standard band and orchestra instruments will be accepted; however, the district is in particular need of flutes, clarinets, saxophones, trumpets, violins and violas. Participating in music classes definitely helps students in development because they are using a different part of the brain, Turner said. (McKinney Courier-Gazette, TX)
Beverly High School Marching Panther Band 2009-2010 Sep 2, 2009
This year s group consists of 88 members: 11 trumpets, 14 low brass, 16 alto sax/French horn, 12 flutes, eight clarinets, 17 percussion and 10 Color Guard members ... Flutes: Megan Bolger, Erika Burns, Abbey Casale, Christina Colman, Jennifer Decie, Sarah Kennedy, Victoria Mori, Catherine Paluzzi, Mary Richards, Emily Rowe, Emily Shawn, Hunter Zimmerman. (Beverly Citizen, MA)
Baroque rocks Aug 31, 2009
Today, among the shoeless children sucking on tangerines, there are indigenous youngsters carrying violins, cellos and flutes. This place was one of the very last Jesuit missions in South America, and home to thousands of local people. (BBC News)
* CDs: Taiwan Aug 30, 2009
The music plays it safe through and through with cleanly strummed and picked acoustic guitars, flutes, bells and hand drums. Then theres the pristine voice of singer and guitarist Xiaojuan, who impressively glides through the high range in songs like Three Birds (Tp). (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Business)
VUSD music programs in need of support Aug 27, 2009
If you have any saxophones, clarinets, trumpets, cornets, trombones, bell kits, baritones or flutes just collecting dust in that closet, you can get a tax deduction if you donate those instruments to kids. For more information about donating an instrument, call Patty Struve at 795-8530. (San Andreas Calaveras Enterprise, CA)
Celebrating, understanding Native American culture Aug 27, 2009
The silent auction concludes at 2 p.m. and at 2:30 p.m., participants can learn to play the Native American flute (flutes are available). The Ute Bronze Bear will also be raffled. (Montrose Daily Press, CO)
More articles by CBD Aug 25, 2009
prefers his fizz to come in champagne flutes. Wednesday April 22, 2009. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
* [THE WEEKENDER] A voyeuristic view of Hamlets family Aug 24, 2009
In additional to the usual erhu, lutes and flutes, pots, pans, clackers and even a blow-up plastic hammer were played, while Chien conducted by waving a pot in his left hand and a deep-fryer scooper in his right. Huangs two works and Chengs piece are well worth seeing again. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Business)
Making the band Aug 22, 2009
Eyes fixated on stands displaying music sheets, the performers blew into their flutes, clarinets, trumpets saxophones and tubas and when finished, the ensemble gasped and chattered until their director summoned quietness. Are you all set, Hickey asked his musicians. (Acton Beacon, MA)
Monday profile: Love of music leads to lifetime of instrument repair Aug 10, 2009
During the course of working on flutes over the years, Ogren started tinkering with parts. The first thing he invented is called a woodlight head joint. (La Crosse Tribune, WI)
Indonesian Gamelan Music Aug 7, 2009
Other instruments used in a gamelan include gongs of various sizes, drums, bamboo flutes, rattles, and occasionally singers. Gamelan arrangements are complex and cannot be performed by an individual performer; a group effort is important in this type of ensemble. (Suite101.com)
LETTER: Top Bagelfest bands should be country Aug 7, 2009
Billie Brant wrote on Aug 4, 2009 9:10 PM:" HP- Call anytime. I promise I won't give up your true ID. You can take that to the bank my friend. I would love to hear your son's music. It's A-OK to brag on your kid! :-) Like you I enjoy many different styles of music. I can't handle Rap and the extreme head banging metal, or screamo. Not my cup of tea at all. I intend to go out and listen to more music, now that I'm on the mend and feeling better.I agree with you on Michael Buble Pumpkinseed. He's... (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
Grda brings traditional and new Irish music to the Myrna Loy Center Aug. 10 Aug 6, 2009
Fellow band members include: Laking, vocals, double bass and guitar; Paul, guitar and vocals; Stephen Doherty, flutes, whistles, melodeon, bodhrn, and cajon; and David Doocey, fiddle, concertina and whistle. Since they re performing 200 concerts a year, much of their composing happens on the road. (Helena Independent Record, MT)
Golden moments with Galway Aug 3, 2009
The encores were Gaubert s Divertissement grec (a lovely piece, originally for two flutes and harp, performed with Lady Galway), and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov s inexhaustible bumblebee which seems, come to think of it, just the image for the flutist himself. Phillip Moll, Galway s able accompanist since 1975, kept up with him. (Boston Globe)
Open mic night in Cameron Jul 30, 2009
Bring guitars, fiddles, clarinets, flutes, kazoos, voices, harps, accordions or any other musical instrument. Enjoy an evening of singing, visiting, laughing, playing music and more. (Chetek Alert, WI)
Amazing rats "play" tiny instruments with their paws Jul 24, 2009
Using food treats, photographer Ellen van Deelen taught Moppy and Witje to pose with a variety of instruments, including pan pipes, guitars, flutes and trombones. Moppy and Witje were trained to pose with the instruments, including this guitar, using food treats. (People's Daily Online, China)
Space Coast Flute Orchestra performs in Melbourne Jul 24, 2009
"This is an opportunity to hear the less well-known flutes, such as the alto, bass and contrabass, in solo or small ensemble settings.". A feast for the ears, "Music by the Numbers" invites the audience to enjoy the full tonal range of the orchestra's instrumentation, from the piccolo to the contrabass. (Florida Today)
Pablo: Meshing melodies - Baroque festival musicians team with tribal members for show Jul 23, 2009
The warm wooden tones of the Native American flutes had much in common with Maute's smaller recorders. Even the lead calls of the drummers, signaling the transitions in their music, were reflected in the body language of the Baroque instrumentalists as they communicated shifts in tempo and mood amongst themselves. (Missoulian, MT)
Songs from the green Jul 16, 2009
Sounds from fiddles, flutes, pipes, concertinas, voice, bodhrans, harps, banjo and accordions swirl around you. A peek into one class reveals dozen uilleann pipers, listening intently to their instructor, Debbie Quigley, as she demonstrates a phrase. (Catskill Daily Mail, NY)
The Best Albums Of 2009 (So Far) Jul 16, 2009
Lily Allen, Mos Def and Kelly Clarkson make the mid-year list, in Bigger Than the Sound (VHI.com -- Music News)
Belfast Catholics riot over Protestant parade Jul 15, 2009
The often elderly, conservatively dressed Orangemen are accompanied by "kick the pope" bands whose hard-faced, tattooed members play an odd mix of Gospel and sectarian tunes on shrill flutes and deafening drums. Monday's parades were preceded by a string of overnight attacks northwest of Belfast that damaged two Orange halls and two Protestant homes, one of them gutted by fire. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Airline Baggage Horror Stories Jul 12, 2009
"Somewhere there's an airline employee with some very nice Waterford champagne flutes that are now 20-years-old," said Thomas de Groot, Colorado. And many travelers have had to come up with creative ways to wear the same clothes, and underwear, for days at a time. (W-USA News, DC)
Couples saying 'I don't' to expensive weddings Jul 8, 2009
She toasted her new life with thrift-store champagne flutes dolled up with twisting strands of green and pink beads from Michael's. "People think weddings have to cost so much money," Strickland says. (USA Today -- Life)
* SUNDAY PROFILE: The flute doctor Jul 5, 2009
Wong Cheng-jung is set on surpassing his international competitors with the healthy flutes he makes ... But I want to show the world that Taiwanese flute makers can also come up with world-class flutes ... Making and fixing flutes has been his lifelong job and the only thing, Wong says, that makes him smile. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Business)
Songs In The Key Of Life Jun 30, 2009
Archeologists have found bone flutes that go back 40,000 years, and the rhythmic aspects of music must go back hundreds of thousands of years. There are anatomical structures in the human brain which allow us to respond to a beat that you don't find in a chimpanzee. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Anniversary nod to Haydn opens Bach fest Jun 29, 2009
The professional choir sang with clarity and polish, while the orchestra embellished the drama with rich-toned contributions from oboes, flutes, clarinets, strings and thumping timpani. The Oregon Bach Festival runs through July 12: oregonbachfestival. (OregonLive, OR -- Living)
Bon dancing? Fun with good eats Jun 27, 2009
Through the evening, different troupes will take turns in the red-and-white yagura or tower, playing bamboo flutes, hand gongs and shamisen while others pound the taiko drums below. The whole air of a bon dance is happy: Temple members hang the lanterns to welcome home the dead, and some will be dancing hatsu-bon for family lost within the year. (Honolulu Advertiser)
It's quiz time Jun 26, 2009
Scientists in Germany published details this week of flutes dating back to the time that modern humans began colonising Europe, 35,000 years ago. They were made from different materials - including two in the list below. (BBC News)
'Oldest musical instrument' found Jun 26, 2009
Scientists in Germany have published details of flutes dating back to the time that modern humans began colonising Europe, 35,000 years ago. The flutes are the oldest musical instruments found to date ... The team from Tubingen University have published details of three flutes found in the Hohle Fels cavern in southwest Germany. (BBC News -- Science)
Bone Flute Is Oldest Instrument, Study Says Jun 25, 2009
Found with fragments of mammoth-ivory flutes, the 40,000-year-old artifact also adds to evidence that music may have given the first European modern humans a strategic advantage over , researchers say ... The newfound flutes, though, "date to the very period of settlement in the region by modern humans ... about 40,000 years ago," Conard said ... The mammoth-ivory flutes would have been especially challenging to make, the team said. (National Geographic)
People begin enjoying music 35,000 years ago Jun 25, 2009
BEIJING, June 25 (Xinhuanet) -- People in fact began enjoying music some 35,000 years ago, according to the prehistoric bird-bone flutes unearthed in southwest Germany. Researchers said on Wednesday they had found a five-hole flute made from the radius bone of a griffon vulture and two fragments of ivory flutes in a cave in the Swabian Jura mountains ... Another flute excavated in Austria is believed to be 19,000 years old, and a group of 22 flutes found in the French Pyrenees mountains has been... (Xinhuanet, China)
Prehistoric flute in Germany is oldest known Jun 25, 2009
The Hohle Fels flute is more complete and appears slightly older than bone and ivory fragments from seven other flutes recovered in southern German caves and documented by Conard and his colleagues in recent years. Another flute excavated in Austria is believed to be 19,000 years old, and a group of 22 flutes found in the French Pyrenees mountains has been dated at up to 30,000 years ago ... "I would put my money on modern humans having created and played these flutes.". (AZCentral -- News)
Paleolithic Bone Flute Discovered Jun 25, 2009
ScienceDaily (June 25, 2009) Excavations in the summer of 2008 at the sites of Hohle Fels and Vogelherd produced new evidence for Paleolithic music in the form of the remains of one nearly complete bone flute and isolated small fragments of three ivory flutes ... This species has a wingspan between 230 and 265 cm and provides bones ideal for large flutes ... The 2008 excavations at Hohle Fels also recovered two small fragments of what are almost certainly two ivory flutes from the basal... (Science Daily)
• Weather sends flute festival inside; event wraps up today Jun 21, 2009
"What makes these flutes so unique is the double chamber," Blueflint said. In addition to vendor booths and music, Saturday's highlights included the evening concert, headlined by international flute master Gary Stroutsos, who played American Indian flutes and Chinese bamboo Xiao and Dize flutes. (Burley South Idaho Press, ID)
Phobias From A to Z Jun 21, 2009
A ablutophobia: fear of bathing acarophobia. sourness achluophobia. (Time.com)
• Flute fest draws some of genre's top musicians Jun 19, 2009
Organizer Marsha Sanders of Twin Falls said the artists will be easily recognized by those already interested in world and American Indian flutes and will become fast favorites to people hearing them for the first time ... "My husband and I play our flutes at local flea markets and such, and people are drawn to them. There was a hunger to hear and learn more, and from that experience the festival was born," Sanders said ... Experiencing Stroutsos wouldn't be complete without his playing of... (Burley South Idaho Press, ID)
Urban Science graduates urged to do their best Jun 17, 2009
After Goodwin s speech, the music ensemble grabbed their saxophones, flutes, electric guitars and drums and played Lean On Me by Bill Withers. Keynote speaker Elizabeth Siwo, a Harvard graduate, impressed the crowd with a speech encouraging the students to do something great in life. (Rsolindale Parkway Transcript, MA)
Making Music Matters concert showcases why music matters Jun 16, 2009
The sound of flutes, clarinets, trumpets and violins filled the auditorium at Washington Irving Middle School last Thursday, during their annual Making Music Matters concert. Students ranging from fourth to seventh grade came from the four schools that participate in the Making Music Matters program. (Rsolindale Parkway Transcript, MA)
Maynard's Fowler School student band wins gold medal Jun 6, 2009
The student band also recently greatly benefited from a donation of many musical instruments from Powell Flutes of Maynard. The Great East Festival always marks the end of another year of practicing and rehearsals for the Fowler band and hours of fund raising by band parents. (Beacon Villager, MA)
Do you remember? Jun 4, 2009
JP wrote on Jun 2, 2009 1:47 PM:" While living on Rosalie Street, we walked through Theda Ewing school's playground and went to Norris' store on Hopkins to buy wax red lips, wax Coca Cola bottles, wax pan flutes and tons of candy necklaces. After getting the sugar-high, we walked to Randy's Record Shop and went into the booth and played records; we never bought anything but they were always nice enough to let us play the records. We made sure we had 26 cents left over to buy a fresh hot french... (New Iberia, LA)
Sting's message Jun 1, 2009
Sting, who left the classroom in the mid-1970s to become a full-time musician, recalled how his favourite lessons involved borrowing as many instruments as he could - "guitars, banjos... nose flutes! And let the kids mess around". He warned that while the country did not produce much any more, "we do make art and music". (BBC News -- UK)
African flavour to Mozart's Magic Flute is pure yet fun May 28, 2009
At the moment (in South Africa), that's a very important message," said director Donford-May. One of the leads in the opera is Pauline Malefane, who plays The Queen of the Night. The idea of an 'Africanised' opera by Mozart had her initially luke-warm at the project. "I've seen quite a few Magic Flutes but the story didn't actually appeal to me. It looked like a fairytale which didn't really make sense and I didn't relate to it, but I've loved the music," she said. What prompted the change of... (Channelnewsasia.com)
Children explore Native American music, history at Winterville Mounds May 19, 2009
As such, parents and children listened to or played rattles, cane flutes, pan pipes, vihuellas a Spanish predecessor to the guitar harmonicas, guitars and many more instruments ... As a reward for patience, Howell gave the kids cane flutes and harmonicas that the children played with relish at the lesson's end. (Greenville Delta Democrat Times, MS)
Teach Yourself How to Read Sheet Mu... May 17, 2009
Music for sopranos, altos, tenors, flutes, clarinets, violins, violas, trumpets, and others is written in this clef. Also, the notes written for a pianist s right hand are in the treble clef. (Suite101.com)
3 Gamelan groups blend voices at arts festival May 17, 2009
The suite, created by the company's two artists-in-residence with grant support from the Zellerbach Family Foundation, is unique in part because it uses three gamelans - mesmerizing orchestras of drums, gongs and flutes - at once: the genderwayang , associated with the heavenly realm, the 25-musician gamelan gong kebyar , which expresses the human world, and the gamelan angklung , which connotes the lower regions of creatures and spirits, including the malevolent ones. It takes 18 artists to... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Bars & Clubs May 16, 2009
You can get everything from Bosnian wine, to bottles from small California producers to a bottle of Colt 45 for two (it comes in a bucket of ice with two champagne flutes). O Bar en. (Los Angeles Downtown News, CA)
Band conductors seek instruments for those wishing to join the band May 9, 2009
Instruments currently in need include flutes, oboes, clarinets, saxophones, trumpets, french horns, trombones, baritones, tubas and percussion equipment ... Typical rentals for instruments such as trumpets, clarinets, flutes and trombones can range between 30 and over 70 per month, Bizoe said. (Niles Star, MI)
Magical Midsummer Night a dream come true May 7, 2009
" These words, sung near the end of Benjamin Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream, neatly summarize the entire opera, as well as the Canadian Opera Company's first-ever performance of it, which looked and sounded very much like a dream come true. No opera composer has ever gulped down as much undiluted Shakespeare as Britten did with this piece, and nobody has made the poet's pentameter sing so well for so long. The miracle is that he did it with such direct, simple-sounding, yet deeply magical... (Globe and Mail)
