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With a pedigree like this, it takes a lot of chutzpah to call this Jazz-Rock. But it is: Rather than laying insipid horn charts over standard rock and giving it the name, rock's emphasis on rhythm has been injected into jazz. Enter Miles. And the rest, as they say, is history. The six ensembles that have resulted from Miles's own experiments form a mini-spectrum making up one end of a larger spectrum of all jazz. At the rock end of the small one lies The Mahavishnu Orchestra. Zawinul's Weather Report, from what little...
...Meistersinger Minister." Who knows? If Scheel could get together with West Europe's other leaders, even the factions in the Common Market might stay in tune. Scheel could sing, Edward Heath could pound the piano, and Georges Pompidou might even learn to tootle an obbligato on the French horn...
SUNDAY, The Class Menagerie, terrible Katharine Hepburn TV debut, in a play with some unforgiveable lines. Watch for the glass unicorn to get his horn broken off. Channel...
Lightning arpeggios bounce from clarinet to oboe. A perfectly articulated trill decorates a French horn solo. The musicianship is impeccable. But technics aside, the Dorian Quintet-the world's most active wind quintet-has several exceptional features: a completely booked calendar (75 concerts in 1973), a nearly six-figure collective income and an ample inventory of music to play...
Floating Residency. "Our sound is flowing," explains French Horn Player Barry Benjamin from behind a bristling walrus mustache. "It would be ideal if we never had to breathe-although Olivier's breathing never harmed his Hamlet." Even pausing for breath, the Dorian has achieved an increasingly secure rank as one of chamber music's most sparkling and eloquent ensembles. In 1969 Brooklyn College appointed its members to posts on the music faculty. At about the same time, the State University of New York assigned the group to a "floating residency" consisting of one-to four-day concert-lecture...