By Anamarie Diaz, The Financial Flutist Let’s talk about money. A word that can send shivers down many peoples spine and cause instant anxiety. If we’re being honest, talking about money is taboo. It’s an uncomfortable topic to the extent that many of us were told to never bring it up in conversation. But the truth is, money is…
Автор – Софья де Салис Мы должны сделать свою мечту частью настоящего. Мы должны верить в мечту чтобы жить. А. Курпатов Испробовав огромное колличество методик планирования, прочтя множество книг на тему Таймменеджмента, планирования и личной эффективности, а такаже работая и практикуя разные методы с учениками, я нашла для себя самый эффективный алгоритм для любой деятельности или работы: Мечта – Цель –…
by Kathy Blocki Do you ever feel a brain fog when trying to conquer a passage? Or maybe you feel like one of your students is in a brain fog. Sometimes you see improvement during a practice session, only to discover the next day that your retention was poor. Often, we rely on a seemly infinite number of repetitions to see lasting…
by Yulia Berry The Babel Flute turned exactly one year old! But what is exactly The Babel Flute? Since the launch of The Babel Flute project on March 20, 2021, over 75,000 people from 136 countries have visited the platform in 15 months (according to Google Analytics). Since the magazine is purely for flute players and narrowly focused on…
by Stefan Keller The fascination of low flutes is something that has been haunting me for nearly thirty years. What really sets this fascination are the deep “slow” vibrations, the “sonorous sound”, the “resonance” of the different sized tubes, and the unbelievable sonority. In the following text I introduce the individual low flutes from my very personal point of…
Dear flutists, We would like to introduce the 5th edition of The Babel Flute! We thank our authors for their incredible articles in which they share their knowledge, experience and talents! This is a truly international magazine, created by flutists from all over the world! 10 new authors have joined us in this edition! We are so happy to…
Il suono dell’anima armena di Anush Naroyan L’Armenia è un paese antico: la sua cultura, così come le sue tradizioni, vantano una storia millenaria. Basterebbe evocare alcuni nomi: il monte Ararat, il lago Sevan… Già presente sulla mappa babilonese del V secolo a.C., il nome “Arminia” è menzionato per la prima volta dal re persiano Dario I (522 –…
by Laura Chislett Accomplished Australian classical and contemporary flute player Laura Chislett reflects on her performances of five recent works of composers Xu Yifan, Anwar Wajidi, Shihui Cui, Lanqing Ding and Liza Lim. Tumbleweed, Moaning, Silence and The Shadow of Flowers: the scheduling of this two-year projectwas extremely fortuitous, though of course I didn’t know this at the time….
by Ludwig Böhm The 5th International Theobald Böhm Competition for Flute and Alto Flute was, according to the number of participants, the most successful up to now. About 100 students wrote me because of the competition. It was indeed international. Participants There were 81 registrations from 21 countries: Germany (3); France (1), Italy (10), Croatia (2), Austria (7), Portugal…
By Eileen Gilligan Tone Development Through Interpretation by Marcel Moyse is an amazing resource he has given flute players. Not only is it full of inspirational extracts and exercises that develop subtleties and inflections in the player as well as a beautiful tone it opens the door to really looking at the flute as a musical voice. It took…
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