Flute with Erika Andres [Class Hub]

This week one of our members played the charming Gavotte by the Classical composer (the Classical Era was roughly from 1750-1800 or 1820) Francois-Joseph Gossec.  While it is often played by flutists, it is very worthwhile to listen to the violin original especially for the lightness and clarity of articulation that can come from certain bowing techniques.  Here is an interesting recording https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2j8Kakhg9A!

And if you think the Gavotte is wonderful, check out another of his famous pieces, Tambourin.  Here is a fabulous recording for flute and orchestra by the French flutist Patrick Gallois.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Hj2DfO1sKA.  Listen to that incredible double tonguing at the end!

Today we heard A Kiss In The Dark by Victor Herbert, a song from an operetta called Orange Blossoms written in the early 1920s.  The version we heard today was the flute 3 part of a flute quartet, but here is the original vocal version (start at 14:46 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWDFhTqDwi4).  But here is an interesting flute recording, notably much jazzier https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83mK2JCwBzk especially with the glissandos.  Also, while this version is written for flute quartet, this ensemble in this recording used an entire flute choir, including alto flutes which you can see in the back row.

I also have one more recording I would like to share with you.  Recently we have been talking about performance anxiety.  One of my flute colleagues from when I was in Florida was a guest on a music podcast and she has a lot of great suggestions for dealing with this ever pertinent issue - Listen here.  See if anything resonates with you!

Today in class we were talking about the Circle of Fifths (or Fourths if you read it counterclockwise) to find the order of your scales and the relative minors to your major scales.  Here it is for your reference.

Also, today we heard a piece, Forest Echo by R. M. Endresen that was written in theme and variations form.  Here is another incredibly famous example of theme and variations in flute literature, the Carnival of Venice by Guilio Briccialdi (fun fact: he is also the same person who invented the Bb thumb key on your flute).  Here is a good recording with just the flute part and sheet music if you are interested in seeing the notes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YZ8IjdG2ho, but this recording here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKKgTISbYmQ features the amazing Russian flutist Denis Bouriakov with wind ensemble.  His fingers move so fast and he brings out the theme so well against a lot of ornamental notes that at some points he really sounds like two flutists playing at the same time!

It is an amazingly old tune, having been around several hundred years (I think the words were in German originally)!  But the reason this tune is used in this piece is because it was used in a ballet called the Carnival of Venice which made that melody very famous.  A lot of composer including Briccialdi and the famous violin virtuoso Paganini wrote variations on the theme because of the ballet.

And that is a great point about Bouriakov's embouchure!  He is playing completely out one side of his mouth with the other totally closed.  That is actually a common embouchure for people who have lips with a prominent teardrop.  It makes it very difficult for them to play with the air coming out of the center of their lips because it splits the airstream in two. 

Have you ever heard the saying, “no pain, no gain”?  WRONG!  It is not okay to play in pain!  The way we use our bodies while playing can greatly affect our comfort and health, and improper use can result in pain and injury.  Which of course also affects the performance of our music in a highly negative way.  Some statistics say that as many as 3/4 of musicians suffer from some form of music-making related injury in at least one point in their lives!  I unfortunately fell into this statistic several years ago before I was knowledgeable about musician's health so I want to help prevent it from happening to you also!

We have talked about body mapping and ways to use our bodies properly to alleviate tension and prevent pain in earlier classes.  I wanted to share with you a great resource that I have recently discovered and of which I have been taking advantage, a flute podcast called Flute 360.  The first 4 episodes deal entirely with the issue of musician's health, and there is a lot of other great information of many different flute topics to be found in other episodes!  https://heidikaybegay.com/category/2018/page/4/

Hi flutists!  Today we had a volunteer play the Queen of the Night Aria from the opera the Magic Flute  by Mozart.  Here is the original vocal version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuBeBjqKSGQ.  If you would like to see the words translated, hit CC in the lower right-hand corner.  Such amazing high notes!

That aria is an incredibly famous solo for soprano.  But for flute (or actually piccolo), one of the famous parts of the opera is the Bird Catcher's aria where the charater Papageno plays a pan flute on stage but a piccolo player is playing the part in the orchestra in the pit under the stage.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6S9cQNbENI.  Such a happy tune in comparison!

Many musicians, if not all of them, have to deal with performance anxiety in one form or another.  An interesting article I recently read talks about posture and its affect on anxiety.  You might already be aware of the fact that someone's posture reflects their internal state-someone feeling confident will be walking tall with their head held high while someone feeling anxious will probably be more collapsed in their stance.  But it also works the other way around as well, you can change your posture to change how you feel!  So if you want to feel confident, act that way and you most likely will actually legitimately feel that way soon.  Check out this Power Pose Article for more info.

Also, if you would like some more tips and ideas for dealing with performance anxiety, you might check out the new book, It's Performance Day! by Cathy Collinge Herrera.  It is filled with practical advice from musicians around the world and even has an additional volume solely dedicated to the individual strategies of many famous flute players.

Today in class we had a volunteer play Pan by Johannes Donjon.  This piece is one of several flute compositions written at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries with the subject of Pan, a half-goat faun from Greek mythology who is the god of shepherds and their flocks and who plays the flute. 

This work along with another famous one called La Flute de Pan by Jules Mouquet emphasizes the pleasant pastoral aspect of Pan's nature.  Here is a great recording of La Flute de Pan by one of the flute superstars, the "Man with the Golden Flute" James Galway https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCoxTOp4vSU.  It is in three movements, I. Pan et les Bergers (Pan and the Shepherds), II. Pan et les Oiseaux (Pan and the Birds, start at 3:49), and III. Pan et les Nymphes (Pan and the Nymphs, start at 9:22).  Such wonderful melodies!  You may find the sheet music here if you are interested https://imslp.org/wiki/La_fl%C3%BBte_de_Pan,_Op.15_(Mouquet,_Jules).

However, one of the most famous works in flute literature is Syrinx by Claude Debussy.  This piece emphasizes the slightly darker side of the Pan myth.  Pan was in love with a nymph named Syrinx who did not return his feelings.  Unable to take no for an answer, he chased her and to escape him she turned herself into a bunch of reeds.  But Pan decided to cut the reeds down and make them into a pan flute!  Here is a recording by the incredible flutist Emmanuel Pahud who is the principal flutist of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEyKM13yf_4.  And here is the sheet music for this one as well https://imslp.org/wiki/Syrinx_(Debussy%2C_Claude).  Much more mysterious melodies! 

Lots of links and fun listening for you today!

We heard a performance of the Swan from Carnival of the Animals by Camille Saint-Saens, a famous French composer from the late 1800s/early 1900s.  It is originally for a cello soloist.  What a beautiful piece of music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXEy_UfSgCU&list=PL5EDDC3CD0593C9E0&index=13!  In this link you will also find a playlist of all the other movements in this work, each movement representing a different animal.  The most famous movement in flute repertoire is the Aviary, a minute and a half only but so many notes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFJf3rHd69c&list=PL5EDDC3CD0593C9E0&index=10!  If you have not heard this whole work before I really encourage you to do so, it's such a great composition.  Each movement is pretty short too.  I also personally love the Aquarium movement as well...

And during interval training we played the songs Take On Me for ascending major sevenths https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaQ083rNUwc, Cole Porter's I Love You for descending major sevenths https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXIXknT-iQ8, and Somewhere from West Side Story for ascending major sevenths https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SQ4ogstDVE (if you are interested in the full movie of West Side Story it is on YouTube but it's not free unfortunately, you have to rent it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08DL9rNpOdc).

My pleasure, Pam, hope they help!  I know those tunes have been running over and over in my head since I posted them...

Happy 4th!

Hi everyone, today we talked about descending minor sevenths and we used An American in Paris by George Gershwin as a good example.  If you haven't heard it, you definitely should listen to it, such a cool piece!  You can actually hear the car horns on the street of the city... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xtyQ4Iv7jA.  And by the way, if you have never heard Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue that was also mentioned briefly today, you absolutely have to listen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cH2PH0auTUU.  Always a little jealous of the clarinet that gets to play such a cool opening run!

We also encountered a few chromatic solfege examples as we have been transposing pieces.  Here is a chart to help.  Mostly you change the vowel to an "i" (pronounced ee) to raise the pitch or to an "e" (pronounced eh or a as in the word bay) to lower it, the only exception really being re which you change to ra to lower it.

We talked about tritones today!  Here is Maria from West Side Story https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyofWTw0bqY, our augmented fourth starts 30 seconds in.  Or for the Simpsons fans https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPzS3QYb868, the tritone is the first two notes of the theme.

If you would like to practice identifying intervals more on your own, here is a great website https://www.musictheory.net/exercises/ear-interval.

Hi everyone,

I mentioned this a while ago but thought I would again just in case as this event is coming up.  The National Flute Association (NFA) holds a convention every year, which until last year was in-person in a different city each year.  But this year it is again virtual.  There are so many flute events!  It is this week from August 12th through the 15th but you have until September 15 to watch recordings of past events.  Unfortunately it costs a little more than last year, but there are discounts for registering for just one day or if you are a student.  If you are interested (not at all pressuring you though!), you can find out more information here, including a schedule of events, https://www.nfaonline.org/convention/registration/2021virtualconvention.  I believe they are planning for it to be in Chicago next year, so this is likely the last time it will be virtual.

See you Saturday!

Hi everyone!  Time to expand your playlist!

Today we heard the Entrance of the Gladiators by the Czech composer, Julius Fucik.  He  actually wrote a lot of band pieces.  One of his other really famous works is the Florentiner March https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPMHRNBr_U4.

During the Romantic Era (19th century), there were actually several famous Czech composers (there weren't really too many before this point in classical music history).  Another one is Bedrich Smetana who wrote a really cool piece called the Moldau, which is about a river that runs through the Czech area, and it starts off with an amazing flute duet, the two flutes needing to work together seamlessly to sound like one.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhAwqPBPIEM.  He also wrote an opera called the Bartered Bride and there is some incredibly famous and difficult flute playing (and for the rest of the orchestra) at the beginning https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeyYcRjj9Yw.

Probably the other most famous Czech composer is Antonin Dvorak.  His symphonies are incredible, making him one of my all time favorite composers personally.  The ninth, his New World Symphony (he used American folk music for inspiration thus the New World) is his most famous and it has some amazing flute music, especially the first movement https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLWpgWuUaU4&t=1s, but all of the movements are so melodic and wonderful to listen to.  For flute players, the most famous symphony is the eighth because it has a huge flute solo in the fourth movement https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6O6Nme3fw5k&t=1802s (starting at about 29 minutes in the video).  If you end up loving his music as much as I do, you might also check out his Slavonic Dances and his American string quartet, they are just amazing!

Enjoy!

Hi all, I wanted to share with you a link from the National Flute Association (NFA) that I was sent today.  This fall they will be having free classes of various topics on certain Sundays.  A few of the events are for NFA members only but most are open to any flutist, but you do have to register in advance.  There are a few there that you might find interesting, in particular one talking about warmups, another about the difference between practicing and playing, and one with big band music where you can play along.  See this link for more info https://www.nfaonline.org/community/events/nfa-events.

Hi everyone,

Yesterday we heard the beautiful work, Berceuse, by Faure.  This work was originally for violin.  Here is a wonderful version by the incredible violinist, Yehudi Menuhin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtxyDKXIkX0, who played on one of the most famous (and expensive, worth millions of dollars today) violins made called the Soil Stradivarius.

If you enjoyed Faure’s piece, he wrote some great flute music too, some of our best French music, one called Morceau de Concours https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=em7sQpjwO7g which we have briefly looked at in class previously, and another called Fantasie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKC8Ivr6rfg.

For more works called Berceuse (“lullaby”) check out Stravinsky’s Berceuse et Finale from his ballet, The Firebird https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWvOgda1g2E.  And probably the most famous lullaby of all is Brahms’s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sF6pSeDfdDg.

I hope you like these works as much as I do, enjoy!

Hi everyone, I have been enjoying going over the Renaissance flute in class!  I recently found this video on a brief history of the Renaissance flute in case you are interested https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTbwWYnEhJA.

If you are looking to play more Renaissance music, we have the one song that we didn't cover in class today but I have another one which is a lot of fun called La Volta by Michael Praetorius from a famous collection of dances called Terpsichore.  Here is the sheet music https://www.flutetunes.com/tunes/praetorius-la-volta.pdf, and here is a great recording where you can see performers playing this music with the main melody on recorder https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcBZABa-CvQ.  It is in 6/4 time but since it is fast it is counted in 2 with the dotted half note getting the beat.  Have fun!

Hi all,

Today we started looking at the Baroque Era.  I found a couple of good videos that help summarize some of the things that we were talking about today (or will finish next time).  This first one is a quick introduction https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NT42wlBMTg and the next is a bit more detailed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ua5X35FYko (it's a great and pretty thorough summary just a little complex in parts).

Hope these help!

Erika

Hi everyone,

I just wanted to share a couple of cool links with you.  

A few days ago Lessonface hosted a free class featuring two great flute and piccolo players, Keith Underwood and Stephanie Mortimore.  They have a lot of great tips and advice.  Because you can now enroll in past classes, you may watch the recording here https://www.lessonface.com/content/lessonface-presents-stephanie-mortimore-and-keith-underwood-conversation.  In the class they also mentioned this website where you can analyze vibrato at very slow speeds which makes for an interesting study https://johnwion.com/vibrato.html.

Also, right before Halloween a great video by body mapping expert and flutist Lea Pearson came out about bones and how to think about them in an anatomically correct way to help us play with ease.  Body mapping is wonderful to help us understand how to best use our bodies when playing (or in everyday life) and get rid of tension and pain.  https://musicminuspain.kartra.com/videopage/QhOoZPLW1UlF. 

Sorry to drop all these on you at once but I didn't have a chance to watch these videos until recently and realized I had to share them with you!

Erika

Hi everyone,

I look forward to talking more about Baroque flute with you next week!  But in the meantime, I found two great videos about the history of the flute at this time.  They are part of a larger series of the overall history of the flute.  Enjoy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJoa0TI9mGQ&list=PLYKbFLYepMEzIVJRMWbvqPNn1sIgq58zh&index=10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPGwbmM3lVo&list=PLYKbFLYepMEzIVJRMWbvqPNn1sIgq58zh&index=11

Erika

Hi all,

Hope you are enjoying your holiday weekend!  I just wanted to let you know about this neat flute magazine called The Flute Examiner.  They publish articles once a month and if you subscribe you get them sent to your email.  What I really like about this magazine is that the articles are on a wide variety of topics but the majority of them are fairly short (you can usually read an article in about 5 minutes) so they are good when you don't have a lot of time.  Plus it's free!

This month the articles were about slow practice, variety in movement, and piccolo COAs among other things.  A lot of nice tips and insights! 

https://thefluteexaminer.com/

Enjoy!

Erika

Hi everyone,

Here is the video I was referring to today.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxCwmLeerPA&t=4s.  It is on the history of the development of the flute from the Renaissance flute to the invention of the modern flute.  You can see and hear the instruments played, very beautiful and interesting! 

It's about the length of a movie so get your popcorn!

Erika

Hi all,

We heard the beautiful Sicilienne by Faure in class today.  Siciliennes were popular all the way back to the Baroque era (if not earlier).  Here is a famous one, in this case called Siciliano, by Bach, the second movement of his flute sonata in Eb major.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TC57rTGXOo.  Like most music of this type, it is in minor and has the characteristic lilting quality coming from the dotted eighth-sixteenth note-eighth note rhthym in 6/8 time, just like in Faure's Sicilienne.  Another popular one with similar charracteristics comes from Handel's Sonata in F major (originally for recorder), the third movement entitled Siciliana https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0uwm5yDSmM (start at 4:50).

For more famous works by Faure, see the forum post from 10/10/2021.

Enjoy!

Erika

Hi everyone,

Since we spent so much time on the Handel Sonata in G major today, I thought I would share a recording with you by Barthold Kuijken, one of the earliest and most famous flutists to start playing Baroque music on the Baroque flute in a historical informed style.  He made a lot of interesting style and ornament choices https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYLFpraKk2U.  Just don't try to play along (you can find the sheet music on IMSLP https://imslp.org/wiki/Flute_Sonata_in_G_major%2C_HWV_363b_(Handel%2C_George_Frideric)) because his flute is pitched at A=392hz which sounds a whole step lower!  It is one of the most common pitches to play Baroque music after 415hz, a half step lower than our modern pitch at 440hz.

I also wanted to let you know about a few free virtual classes being sponsored by the NFA (National Flute Association) coming up in the next few weeks.  https://www.nfaonline.org/community/events/nfa-events.  These classes cover the diverse topics of low flutes, Irish music, interleave practicing, contemporary flute music, and a famous flute piece called the Hindemith Sonata.  Should be fun!

Erika

Hi all,

Here is a great recording on Baroque flute of the CPE Bach Sonata in A minor for solo flute that we talked about today with the contracted upbeats (making the 16th notes after the rests really short to match the 32nd notes that follow since rests typically did not have dots on them at the time) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpRJhhHI0E8.  Here is a link to the sheet music https://s9.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/f/f5/IMSLP01479-CPEBach_-_Sonata_solo_flute_a_min-fl-a4.pdf (the rhythm part starts at measure 37).

Also, I saw this advertise on Lessonface recently https://www.lessonface.com/apply/fall-love-your-flute-tone, a workshop about flute tone.  Should be interesting if you want to check it out!  Although the second part of the workshop overlaps with our class unfortunately, but you can always watch the recording for that part.

See you next Saturday!

Erika

Hi again, sorry, I forgot to share another famous example of a Minuet (and Trio) like the one we heard by Pleyel today.  You might know this one!  For piano but you can always play the melody on flute too.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttHwuyJsZAI.  It follows the same form, Minuet then Trio (both with repeats) then Minuet again (no repeats), ABA.

Hi all,

There is a Bach marathon happening this Saturday, March 19 from 11am until after 3pm ET featuring yours truly at 11:05am ET (I will be playing movements from Bach's Orchestral Suite in B minor on Baroque flute) and many other local Savannah musicians.   Can't get better than 4+ hours of Bach!  If you are interested (good timing especially considering all of our Baroque practice lately), it will  be live streamed here https://bachascending.com/.

Erika

Hi all,

Here is a good recording of the Bach Rondeau from Bach's Orchestra Suite No.2 in B minor from class today https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4g-FHbexvg.  They are playing on Baroque instruments. 

Notice how the accompaniment differs in the contrasting sections, for example the B section at 30 seconds where basically the bass drops out for a few bars.  So you can use information like that when deciding your ornaments, maybe for example getting softer with your dynamics there as one possibility.  There aren't lots of ornaments in this particular recording but they do throw in a few trills and other essential graces occasionally.  They also shape the phrases and articulate very beautifully.

Enjoy!

Erika

Hi everyone,

We heard the wonderful Baroque piece, Bourree, from Bach's Lute Suite today.  And while this is a famous work when played as written, it is also quite a popular song in modern music.  The rock band, Jethro Tull, with the famous rock flutist, Ian Anderson, played this piece https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2RNe2jwHE0.  And the fabulous beatbox flutist, Greg Pattillo, of the group Project Trio does his own version of Jethro Tull's version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BSvJzgdQic.

Also, if you like to hear Baroque music in a modern setting, then you should check out Claude Bolling's Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano Trio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vh7HzrJkers.  Part 1 (Baroque and Blue) and 4 (Fugace) both feature Baroque music while there are many other types of music in the other movements.

What a great twist to Baroque music!

Erika

As promised, here is a video explaining modes, although if you are interested there are other longer and more in depth ones on YouTube.   But this is a good, short intro.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMftXzZrv3g.  Although you will need to know the different keys on a piano.  If you don't, I have attached a picture here below with the different letters on them.

Hi all,

I thought you might be interested in seeing the program from Savannah Baroque's concert yesterday that I played in.  It featured all women composers of the era, which is a nice coincidence after talking about the same subject last class.  I have attached the program here, which includes not only the titles of the pieces we played but interesting information about each of the composers.

Also, here is the link to the presentation from Saturday going over Anna Bon and other women composers.  https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/10IgjuDJFcUZ-kVGHkEiDnSuaFR-GYr4Wma135_eAhm8/edit?usp=sharing.  Hopefully it attaches.  If not, email me and I will put a link in your notes.

Erika

Hi everyone,

Here is the link with all of Vivaldi's flute concertos from today.  Enjoy!

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_k_kBR8xL8t2voo_dpwNwhZ_U-5nhloxKE

Erika

Hi all,

Here is a great way to practice your bass clef reading skills http://musicteachersgames.com/bassClefOne.  Remember, lines are Good Burritos Don't Fall Apart and spaces are All Cows Eat Grass.

Have fun!

Erika

Hi everyone,

I saw this picture recently and thought it would be great to share, nice practice strategies!

Hi everyone, I have several great resources for you today!  

If you are interested in low flutes, you can find out more about the really low flutes (below bass flute) here https://www.contraflute.com/.  And there is actually a virtual international low flutes festival going on right now if you want more info about low flute or ever want to make music with one https://lowflutesfestival.org/.

Also shared by one of our attendees in class today is a video of one of the most famous panpipe flutists in Ecuador https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUBY6H_Z6PM.  Very talented, playing panpipes and guitar at the same time!

Finally, here is a hilarious video made by the famous British flutist, Trevor Wye, where he plays the tune to Carnival of Venice on 58 different flutes!  Talk about a large collection!  Including some really rare ones and some of which he invented.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wd2PNXmvR5Q.

Enjoy!!

Erika

 Hi all!  Here is the snowman picture from today with the inversions and figured bass numbers.  If you have time this week, try to write down the notes in the chords of the Telemann Methodical Sonata based on the figured bass numbers on the bass line.  Remember that for chords in root position they frequently don't write any numbers (5/3) because it is the most common structure of a chord and it is implied to be in root position if the numbers aren't there, and for 1st inversion frequently the 3 of the (6/3) is left off because it is implied that the 3rd is there so you will just see it as (6).   Also, remember + or # means to raise a note a half step, and if there is no number next to it, it is again implied that it is for the third.  We will practice more next time!

Hi all,

Here is the inversion picture from class today.  Remember, these numbers apply to any seventh chords, not just V.  We will identify the last couple of seventh chords in the Telemann next week if you want to try to figure them out in advance.  We will probably also do the "duet" that we did today in class if you want to keep practicing the different parts, the two flute parts and the bass.

Hi all,

The National Flute Association has more free virtual events coming up this fall.   Check them out!  https://www.nfaonline.org/community/events/nfa-events#RFTFT.​​​​​​​

Erika

Lessonface is having free masterclasses with MET musicians including one for flute this spring!  The class is March 26 with applications due by March 4.  If you do not want to perform, you can also just sign up to watch as well.  What an amazing opportunity!

https://www.lessonface.com/content/met-orchestra-musicians-master-class-performer-application

Hi all, here is the clip from the movie, Amadeus, as promised!  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FgqBQamzus

Haha, it definitely is a unique laugh!  Love that clip :)

Here are the links to the two Mozart concertos from today.  

G major https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9q0ASIuOO4E.

D major https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QYouEfO6Yw, oboe version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDrVtXPpuRI

Hi all!  Here is a nice video, short but with lots of good info, summarizing the Romantic Era. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAVFTvMiqR4

Hi all, here are the videos on the history of the flute I mentioned in class today.  You should check out videos 11 through 13 which take you from multi-keyed flutes to the Boehm flute https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIk3m77I-1Y&list=PLYKbFLYepMEzIVJRMWbvqPNn1sIgq58zh&index=12.  

This whole video series is a good one (I actually shared numbers 9 and 10 with you a while ago), so feel free to check out the others with time.

The National Flute Association has more free events coming up this spring.  For a list of events and to watch recordings of old ones, please see https://www.nfaonline.org/community/events/nfa-events.