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...only would many of the established periodicals perish, of course, but as John Gunther has noted, "many experimental magazines which are the wombs for creative activity should cease to exist...
...Gunther Schuller: Music for Brass Quintet and Fantasy Quartet for Four Celli (Composers Recordings Inc.). Composer Schuller, a onetime first-chair hornist for the Metropolitan Opera, explores the potential of brasses in a fragmented Quintet that is by turns haunted, anguished or raucously jeering. The fine Fantasy Quartet, with its dynamic rhythms and attenuated lines, finds the composer in a less ruffled but consistently moving frame of mind...
...Gunther Schuller and John Lewis have somewhat naively tried to incorporate both jazz and overtly classical music either horizontally or vertically in the same work. The cool reception of the jazz world at large is certainly indicative, but instead of passing off these bastard creations dogmatically you might do well to listen to Conversation on Atlantic 1345. There you will find a few minutes of excellent string quartet writing followed by a few minutes of excellent jazz quartet blowing. But as a general direction for future jazz to take, I think that the efforts of these two men will...
...Inside Europe Today, Gunther...
...people are better qualified than Hindus for such a work; born a Russian, he is fluent in the language, and an unaggressive manner of interviewing-rare among journalists-puts him fully at ease with the people, While the great Insider, John Gunther, complains in a fit of frustration that "most [Russian] citizens, in talk with an outsider, always say that everything is perfect," Hindus blithely explodes the "myth" of Soviet taciturnity with a plethora of frank interviews...