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Georges Barrère (1876-1944) was a French flutist who began on tin whistle as a young boy, and later moved to flute when he was big enough to fit the instrument. He was recommended for lessons in 1888 by Monsieur Chouet, the principal and band leader of Barrère's school. He was accepted at the Paris Conservatoire at the age of fourteen and ...
Aug 18, 2005 · Georges Barrere (1876-1944) holds a preeminent place in the history of American flute playing. Best known for two of the landmark works that were written for him--the Poem of Charles Tomlinson Griffes and Density 21.5 by Edgard Varese--he was the most prominent early exemplar of the Paris Conservatoire tradition in the United States and set a new standard for American woodwind performance ...
Aug 18, 2005 · Georges Barrère (1876-1944) holds a preeminent place in the history of American flute playing. Best known for two of the landmark works that were written for him--the Poem of Charles Tomlinson Griffes and Density 21.5 by Edgard Varèse--he was the most prominent early exemplar of the Paris Conservatoire tradition in the United States and set a new standard for American woodwind performance.
Georges Barrère, 1876-1944, and Ardelle Hookins, age 12, at the Hotel Athenaeum, Chautauqua, New York Barrère is seated in a rocking chair before a tree and Ardelle Hookins is seated on the arm of the chair at his left (viewer's right). There is carved woodwork on porch...
This work (also others by Brun, e.g. his passacaille, premiered by Barrère) is mentioned in books/essays on Barrère (the dedicatee) (Toff, Monarch of the Flute : The Life of Georges Barrere) and on Himie Voxman. In the 1905 Bibliographie (misfiled though it is at Google Books as Darwin and modern science: essays in commemoration of the (page ...
Sep 1, 2012 · Georges Barrère (1876-1944) holds a preeminent place in the history of American flute playing. Best known for two of the landmark works that were written for him—the Poem of Charles Tomlinson Griffes and Density 21.5 by Edgard Varèse—he was the most prominent early exemplar of the Paris Conservatoire tradition in the United States and set a new standard for American woodwind performance.
