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...Bottle. The latest of these new works is Gunther Schuller's wispy, astringent Concerto for Double Bass and Chamber Orchestra, which the New York Philharmonic premiered under Schuller's baton last week at Manhattan's Philharmonic Hall. While the 20-minute work scarcely explored the lyrical side of the bass, it did give Karr plenty of opportunity to display an awesome technique. Bowing and plucking in quick succession, deftly grabbing knotty clusters of double-stops, he skittered from basso groans up to ghostly coloratura harmonics, shading effortlessly from the sound of a human voice to that...
Clearly, what jazz and classical music need are mediators who can boast impeccable credentials in both camps. Gunther Schuller is such a man. A composer, conductor, and president of Boston's New England Conservatory of Music, he is also a seasoned jazz composer, critic, lecturer and performer (French horn). Now he has put his combined backgrounds to work brilliantly in a new book, Early Jazz (Oxford; $9.75). The first of a projected two-volume musical history, the book is nothing less than the definitive guide to jazz for the classical-music...
...their choreography is: there are 21 U.S.-created ballets in the theater's repertory, some never before seen in this country. One of the best is Job Sanders' Impressions, which uses Paul Klee paintings as "points of departure" for seven vignettes (set to music by American Composer Gunther Schuller) that capture both the painter's economy and his wit. There is sexy balletic humor in a spoof of Arab amour that features sinuous ballerina Willy de la Bije as the most languid odalisque ever to scratch herself where it itches. Most ambitious American entry is Glen Tetley...
Despite a few grumbles from musicians getting used to the new hall, a black-tie audience at the inaugural concert found the setting pleasing enough. Composer Gunther Schuller conducted his new Fanfare for St. Louis to start things out in properly noisy fashion, and Conductor de Carvalho (who relinquishes his post at the end of the season to Czech-born Conductor Walter Susskind) made further agreeable noise with Benjamin Britten's The Building of the House and Stravinsky's Petrouchka. Some complained that the acoustics were somewhat plushy and over-resonant but at any rate preferable...
Among the known nonfiction quantities will be Inside Australia, by John Gunther, a new Julia Child cookbook, a determined tract about women by Feminist Betty Friedan, George Plimpton on a new swinging golfer named George Plimpton, some solemn warnings by General James Gavin, and some unsolemn ones from William F. Buckley Jr. William Manchester is back at work on his study of the Krupp industrial empire; both Robert Lowell and James Dickey have new books of poetry...