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Mingus specified most of the musicians he wanted to play Epitaph. Two were at Lincoln Center last week: Eddie Bert on trombone and Don Butterfield on tuba. For the performers, keeping Epitaph alive has been a labor of love, although not without its complications. Five or six sections of the work, Schuller contends, are as difficult as anything in the classical repertory, comparable in density to Charles Ives' Fourth Symphony or Stravinsky's Rite of Spring. "These parts are so complex contrapuntally," says Schuller, "that musicians used to conventional jazz expression are just overwhelmed. It leaves them huffing and puffing...
...author of the Parade piece, Fox Butterfield, believes so. Basing his argument on observations from his 15 years in Asian countries, Butterfield glibly declares that the educational attainment of Asian-Americans is attributable to the common Asian heritage of Confucianism...
Ironically, even as Butterfield perpetuates this stereotypical view of Asian-Americans, he recognizes the falsehood of the model minority myth. The author acknowledges that not all Asian-Americans are academically stellar, pointing to the hardships suffered by many Hmong and Cambodian refugees...
...Butterfield '61, New York Times reporterand East Asian expert, said that student unreststemmed from high inflation and politicalcorruption that accompanied the economic reformsof Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping...
America overlooked these problems in itsenthusiasm for China's economic modernization,Butterfield said...