Gerald Madrid, the flutist, told the affiliate from his hospital bed that he was stabbed five times in the back.

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Hilary, the sensible flutist, is gradually outstripped by her more impassioned sister.

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Kanter, trained in college to be a concert flutist, is pretty much of a geek with a long history on early adoption of online conversational tools.

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The most impressive mash-up may well be the title track, courtesy of Cameroon's favorite son, Manu Dibango, along with Le Grand Kalle and Cuban flutist Don Gonzalo.

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And, as with a film director's magic touch with actors, Karajan inspired his musicians including James Galway, who became the principal flutist for the Berlin Philharmonic in 1969.

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On Jack Paar's television show in 1964, Mr. Winters was handed a foot-long stick and he swiftly became a fisherman, violinist, lion tamer, canoeist, U.N. diplomat, bullfighter, flutist, delusional psychiatric patient, British headmaster and Bing Crosby's golf club.

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With her friends Joshua Smith (principal flutist in the Cleveland Orchestra) and Cynthia Phelps (principal violist in the New York Philharmonic), she chose a set of atmospheric, ethereal works that have what she calls an "esoteric" connection with nature and the environment.

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If a flutist can receive a full music scholarship from a college that can even include a living stipend and also play professionally at Carnegie Hall and be honored for vigorously pursuing her talents, why are college athletes bound to a one-sided contractual relationship with their universities, in the name of amateurism?

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