Music

February, 1979

Flutist Jean-Pierre Rampal is always looking for new fields to conquer and when he finds them, conquer them he does. This time, he teams up with harpist Lily Laskine on Sakura: Japanese Melodies for Flute and Harp (Columbia), and the result is an unqualified success. Rampal and Laskine make the transition from East to West seem as effortless as a flight on the Concorde and as sumptuous as a crossing on the QE2. The works span about a century's time, beginning in the 1860s, and have that timeless...