01.01.70

There were moments Sunday dusk when Abigail Washburn bore a passing resemblance to a conventional nation or old-time musician - when she started the evening with her arrangement of the conventional “Nobody’s Fault But Mine,’’ for archetype, or when she was singing (and clogging to) the old-time gospel number “Minister Bell.’’

Those moments were fleeting. And there were only pr visitations during her performance to the singular mix Washburn concocted on her first solo EP = 'extended play', “Song of the Traveling Daughter,’’ with its incorporation of Chinese lyrics and musical elements into old American old-time.

Instead, Washburn spent most of the evening performing facts from her recently released album “City of Ruse,’’ and much of that wasn’t even close to your forefather’s, or your mother’s, folk. Like united spirits such as the members of Joy Kills Sorrow, or of Washburn’s aforementioned band, Uncle Earl, or Sarah Jarosz (who sat in for three songs Sunday), Washburn is doing new things with old music, and the sampling on ostentation was spectacular.

Source: The Boston Globe

01.01.70

Flute choirs with members ranging in age from midriff school pupils to college students will perform a free concert Sunday incessantly at Washburn University.

Presented by the music department at Washburn University and organized by its professor of flute Rebecca Meador, the Washburn University Flute Coordinates and three younger ensembles — the Arioso Ensemble, Camerata Flute Band and Topeka Youth Flute Choir — will put up at 7:30 p.m. Sunday in White Concert Hall. Admittance is free.

The Washburn Flute Ensemble, directed by Meador, will action Christopher Caliendo's "La Milonga," an Argentine serf dance, and Judy Nishimura's musical condensation of a Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart entitled "The Magical Flute (in Five Minutes)." Ensemble members are: Piper Cooper, Rayna Goldsmith, }ana Havens, Jonathan Huffman, Kathryn Meehan, Emily Paulsen and Jessica Vogel.

Vogel, a Washburn critic from Marion, will direct the Arioso Ensemble — Arriana Bose, Derek Hardee, Cassidy Stiffen, Caitriona Schrickel, Michelle Sieve and Lillian Wen — as it plays flute choir arrangements of two routine tunes, "Let There Be Peace on Earth" and "French Carol." Two Arioso members, Hardee and Wen, accompanied by pianist Jordan Keep away also will perform a flute duet, Ernesto Kohler's "Valse de Fleurs."

Source: Topeka Capital Journal

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