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That time is now past and the Atlantic nations, if they are to survive, must develop a full-fledged community, and they must also look beyond the frontiers of `` Western civilization '' toward a world-wide `` concert of free nations ''.
Another division is between side-blown ( or transverse ) flutes, such as the Western concert flute, piccolo, fife, dizi, and bansuri ; and end-blown flutes, such as the ney, xiao, kaval, danso, shakuhachi, Anasazi flute, and quena.
An illustration of a Western concert flute
With some refinements ( and the rare exception of the Kingma system and other custom adapted fingering systems ), Western concert flutes typically conform to Boehm's design, known as the Boehm system.
Penelope Spheeris ' first installment of the three-part documentary " The Decline of Western Civilization " ( 1981 ) details extensive footage of the early Los Angeles punk scene through interviews and early concert footage from Alice Bag Band, Black Flag, Circle Jerks, Germs, Fear, and Catholic Discipline, among others.
Bobby Hatfield was found dead in his hotel room in Kalamazoo, Michigan on November 5, 2003, half an hour before he was due to perform a concert with Bill Medley at Western Michigan University's Miller Auditorium.
In February 2005, Sting performed at the Leeuwin Estate Concert Series in Western Australia, with the concert raising $ 4 million for the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami relief efforts.
Wang continued to orchestrate politics within his regime in concert with Chiang's international relationship with foreign powers, seizing the French Concession and the International Settlement of Shanghai in 1943, after Western nations agreed by consensus to abolish extraterritoriality.
He then set out on a tour of Western Bohemia, hoping to establish a reputation as a concert pianist.
Smetana's concert tour to Western Bohemia was poorly supported, so he abandoned it and returned to Prague, where he made a living from private pupils and occasional appearances as an accompanist in chamber concerts.
***** 421. 121. 12 With fingerholes – Western concert flutes.
Shaped like an egg, it differs from the ocarina in being side-blown, like the Western concert flute, rather than having a recorder-like mouthpiece ( a fipple or beak ).
In 1972 the band members decided to choose a new name when they signed to Wooden Nickel Records after a talent scout at a concert at St. John Of The Cross Church in Western Springs IL, James Young's home town. Several suggestions were made, and according to DeYoung, the name Styx ( the river in Greek mythology between Earth and the Underworld ) was chosen because it was " the only one that none of us hated ".
Liszt advised Villoing to take him to Germany to study composition ; however, Villoing took Rubinstein on an extended concert tour of Europe and Western Russia.
* August 16 – Cliff Richard becomes one of the first Western artists ever to perform in the Soviet Union when he gives a concert in Leningrad.
This marks the first time a Western band has ever brought a full concert production behind the Iron Curtain.
The songs are generally sung by female performers with accompanying bands or choirs accompanied by a large orchestra ( either Western style or a hybrid of western and traditional ) or concert band.
The concert was unique in that Tangerine Dream was the first Western group who was allowed by the Communist government to play in East Berlin at the time and was dubbed " the performance behind the Iron Curtain ".
Among the first concert tsymbaly to be manufactured in Ukraine were made by the Melnytse-Podilsk workshop in Western Ukraine by Vasyl Zuliak.
From the latter half of the 20th century to the present day in Western Christendom — especially in the United States and in other countries with evangelical churches — various genres of music, originally often related to pop rock, have been created under the label of Contemporary Christian Music for home-listening and concert use.
* Example 2: The Western concert flute plays approximately three and a half octaves and generally has three complete registers and one partial register.
An unusual case of a transversely blown but vertically held flute is a special variation of the standard flute, or, more specifically, the Western concert flute, designed to be played in an upright position.
International recording artists such as Hassan Hakmoun have introduced Gnawa music and dance to Western audiences through their recordings and concert performances.
Despite a struggle with diabetes, Grumiaux continued a rigorous schedule of recording and concert performances, primarily in Western Europe, until a sudden stroke in Brussels took his life in 1986 at the age of 65.

Western and flute
The bamboo flute is an important instrument in Indian classical music, and developed independently of the Western flute.
They accompany dances with their own brand of music using the tulum ( the Pontic bagpipe ) ( for the Western group ), the şimşir kaval ( flute made of buxus ) ( for the Eastern group ) or the Hamshna-Zurna ( Hamsheni zurna ) ( for the Northern group ).
The alto flute is a type of Western concert flute, a musical instrument in the woodwind family.
Theobald Böhm ( or Boehm ) ( April 9, 1794 – November 27, 1881 ) was a German inventor and musician, who perfected the modern Western concert flute and its improved fingering system ( now known as the " Boehm system ").
The Western concert flute is a transverse ( side-blown ) woodwind instrument made of metal or wood.
Katherine Fults playing a Western concert flute
* FluteHistory. com A comprehensive history of the transverse flute in Western music
In recent times instruments might include tambur ( lute ), ney ( flute ), kemençe ( fiddle ), keman ( Western violin ), kanun ( zither ), or other instruments.
Many of the instruments they use in their performance are traditional North African and Middle Eastern instruments: the oud, kamanja, darbuka, tar and rebab, as well as the flamenco cajón, guitar, and palmas and Western instruments such as the flute, saxophone, drum set and piano.
Recently, a revival of sorts has been heralded by Indian bands such as The Raghu Dixit Project, Agam and Swarathma, amongst others, with the introduction of an increasing blend of Western instruments with the traditional Indian ones-the flute and the sitar.
Flute repertory is the general term for pieces composed for flute ( particularly Western concert flute ).

Western and descendant
It is the last remaining descendant of the pre-Indo-European languages of Western Europe.
Today, there are believed to be two descendant groups of those Pequot who survived the Pequot War: the Eastern Pequot Tribal Nation, and the Western Pequot, better-known as the Mashantucket Pequot.
The league is the descendant of the Western International League which ran as a class B league from 1937-1951 ( with time out for WWII ) and class A from 1952-1954.
Liu Xiu was the sixth generation descendant of Emperor Jing of the Former ( or Western ) Han.
He was the son of John Bridges Plumptre and grandson of Eleanor, wife of Reverend Henry Western Plumptre and daughter of Sir Brook William Bridges, 4th Baronet, of Goodneston, a descendant of the aforementioned Mary, sister of the sixteenth and seventeenth Barons.
ECU was granted university status in 1991 and was formed from an amalgamation of teachers ' colleges with a history dating back to 1902 when the Claremont Teachers College was established ; making ECU the modern descendant of the first institution of higher education in Western Australia.
As revealed in DC Comics Presents # 28 ( 1980 ), Johnny eventually retired from action, marrying the similarly-retired outlaw ( and another All-Star Western feature ) Madame. 44 ( Jeanne Walker ), and the couple bore a daughter, Rebecca, and a son, Chuck ; by presumed coincidence, Chuck Taine ( with an I ) is the real name of Bouncing Boy of the Legion of Super-Heroes, but it has never been suggested in-canon that the latter is a descendant of the former.
Johnson developed the AL — a descendant of the minor league Western League — into a " clean " alternative to the National League, which had become notorious for its rough-and-tumble atmosphere .< ref name =" bjohnson & al ">
The Western Reserve Historical Society opened Hale Farm in 1958 after receiving the property from Clara Belle Ritchie, descendant of Jonathan Hale.
According to the New Book of Tang, Jia Xu was a descendant of the Western Han Dynasty statesman Jia Yi.
Aquitanian and its related descendant, Basque, are commonly thought to be a remnant of the languages spoken in Western Europe before the arrival of Indo-European speakers.
Liu Penzi was a descendant of the Western Han prince Liu Zhang, Prince Jing of Chengyang, from whose principality many Chimei men came.
Her mother was a daughter of Liu Pu ( 劉普 ), Prince Gong of Zhending — a hereditary prince descended from the Western Han imperial house, as a sixth generation descendant of Emperor Jing, and she carried the courtesy title of Lady.
Liu Yan was the sixth generation descendant of Emperor Jing of the Former ( or Western ) Han.

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