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March, 2009
Written by: Alexa Still
#Besides the usual wonderful regular contributions, this issue ventures into a very broad area – looking at Music and the people who are apparently addicted to it… Maurice O’Brien introduces the wo...
Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:00:00 -0700
Word count: 571
Written by: Marie Bagley
#“... music links with our innermost emotional, spiritual and most private selves. Music makes us feel more human. It brings us into very close and immediate contact with the people around us and at the...
Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:00:00 -0700
Word count: 1993
Written by: Trevor Wye
#Trevor Wye was a freelance orchestral and chamber music player on the London scene for many years and has made several solo recordings, but it is his teaching for which he is best known.Formerly a prof...
Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:00:00 -0700
Word count: 1623
Written by: Maurice O'Brien
#This is the only non-fiction book on music I have ever read, and I found it both fascinating and thought provoking. Living in a musical household, where everyone plays an instrument except me, I was alre...
Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:00:00 -0700
Word count: 1277
Written by: Alexa Still
#At 15, I remember wondering which of these paths I should follow: fine art school, a tool and die making apprenticeship with Air New Zealand, or continuing with my flute. I was reasonably good at drawi...
Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:00:00 -0700
Word count: 1138
Written by: Joan Sparks
#As a musician and flutist, I have been fortunate to have enjoyed the wide variety of careers that music offers. I had the honor of studying with Murray Panitz while obtaining the Master of Music deg...
Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:00:00 -0700
Word count: 1050
Written by: Carla Rees
#My interest in photography began while I was still at school – my father had always been a keen amateur, and when, at the age of 16 or 17, I had the opportunity to do a year’s dark room course, I j...
Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:00:00 -0700
Word count: 816
#The Native American flute has an interesting body of mythology, with stories detailing the flute’s origination, how it was used to teach life-lessons, its role in bringing prosperity to the people an...
Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:00:00 -0700
Word count: 1183
Written by: Alan Bise
#In the last issue, we discussed several topics including repertoire choices and selecting your team of collaborators. Once you have accomplished this, we enter the “pre-production” phase, during w...
Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:00:00 -0700
Word count: 1282
Written by: Helen Colthart
#The CD falls into the New Age genre. Flute players however, will enjoy hearing the range of flutes and find interest in the ethnic instruments. Suzanne Teng, from Berkeley California, is a flutist, per...
Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:00:00 -0700
Word count: 254
Written by: Helen Colthart
#This superb flute ensemble really lives up to its name. It would be hard to find a similar quintet that compares with these flutists. The ensemble playing, intonation, brilliant technique and unique ...
Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:00:00 -0700
Word count: 317
Written by: Antares Boyle
Yoav Talmi, distinguished conductor of the Quebec Symphony, and his wife Er’ella Talmi, former principal flautist of the Israel Chamber Orchestra, have released a lovely collection of Yoav Talmi’s mu...
Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:00:00 -0700
Word count: 313
Written by: Trevor Wye
#Robert Pratten was one of many English flute players who dabbled in inventing new key systems and in tuning the flute to new scales during the past two hundred years. It is a curious fact - often comm...
Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:00:00 -0700
Word count: 691
Written by: Pandora Bryce
#As a young performer, I practised a lot (6–10 hours a day), which was highly productive in some ways, but also rather unhealthy because I developed tendonitis. As a result I had to find other ways ...
Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:00:00 -0700
Word count: 600
Written by: Morwenna Collett
#Before the long flight home from New York, there was one last flautist I had to meet. Greg Pattillo (www .pattillostyle.com or www.myspace.com/pattillostyle) literally took the flute world by storm...
Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:00:00 -0700
Word count: 1840
Written by: Ingrid Culliford
#For this issue, I want to take a look at something a little different in the way we combine flute with others in a chamber ensemble by introducing Betty Roe’s charming settings of Shakespeare for med...
Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:00:00 -0700
Word count: 1144
Written by: Rachel Rudich
#A life well lived is a life of multiple interests, intertwining pathways, a woven texture of knowledge, experiences, and the pursuit of excellence. If I look back on the 44 years I’ve played the flu...
Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:00:00 -0700
Word count: 1234
Written by: Helen Spielman
#One of the first things you can do to reduce your performance fears is to use positive self-talk in the form of ‘affirmations’... Facing your fears takes courage. Keep a notebook with you, and ever...
Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:00:00 -0700
Word count: 708
Written by: Brendyn Montgomery
#We have been exploring ornamentation in all its forms in Irish flute music. It is time to look at some famous players and dissect their playing to give you an insight into their style, starting with on...
Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:00:00 -0700
Word count: 699
Written by: Alexa Still
#We’ve begun looking at more standard works and exploring what is available from the internet for free. This “How to” column continues from the last issue; we’re referring to a Russian edition o...
Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:00:00 -0700
Word count: 1553
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