1.   The result is that we encounter unsuspected shades of gray, with solo flute and bassoon weaving ironic commentaries.

2.   Canonic Variations, heard in its first performance, is a solo flute work that demands virtuosity without sacrificing gracefulness.

3.   Famous composers including Handel, Vivaldi and Bach broke with tradition and wrote music especially for solo flute players.

4.   In her three-movement concerto, considerable expressive variety is demanded of the solo flute line, which is set against a sparkling, tactile orchestral texture.

5.   One day when a flute solo came on the kitchen radio, Guinevere stopped eating her snack and began to dance and sing to the music.

6.   There are attractive stacked-up harmonies, wistfully soft melodic lines for solo flute, a modal melancholic hymn, restless passages of flute recitative.

7.   Takemitsu completed his final work, an air for solo flute composed for French flutist Aurele Nicolet, in January.