Boston mourns a popular flute

Boston mourns a popular flute

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norman lebrecht

July 19, 2017

The Boston Flute Academy has announced the death of Fenwick Smith, long-serving second flute of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and principal of the Boston Pops. He was 69.

Fenwick resigned from the orchestras in 2005 to pursue a diverse chamber music and teaching career.

Passionate about modern music he played in recordings of premiere recordings of Copland, Foote, Gaubert, Ginastera, Koechlin, Dahl, Harbison, Cage, Pinkham, Schulhoff, Schuller, Schoenberg, Rorem, and Reinecke.

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