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High Philosophy. Now Monk has arrived at the summit of serious recognition he deserved all along, and his name is spoken with the quiet reverence that jazz itself has come to demand. His music is discussed in composition courses at Juilliard, sophisticates find in it affinities with Webern, and French Critic Andre Hodeir hails him as the first jazzman to have "a feeling for specifically modern esthetic values." The complexity jazz has lately acquired has always been present in Monk's music, and there is hardly a jazz musician playing who is not in some way indebted...
...Soloists, in which Trumpeter Don Ellis, Drummer Joe Cocuzzo and Bassist Barre Phillips took off on some flights of fancy that had their opposite numbers among the Philharmonic deskmen slackjawed. Ellis hit licks on the music stand with the mouthpiece of his trumpet; Phillips performed tricks of bowing that Juilliard never taught. It was loud, and toward the end, it was every-man-for-himself. But it was also great fun for the performers and audience alike...
...International Educational and Cultural Affairs, and Glenn G. Wolfe, director of the State Department's Cultural Presentations Office. Broad policy decisions are now made by an expert Advisory Committee on the Arts under Larsen's chairmanship; it includes such people as Cleveland Orchestra Conductor George Szell, Juilliard President Peter Mennin, Producer and Director George Seaton, Alley Theatre Director Nina Vance, Sculptor Theodore Roszak, and Manhattan School of Music President John Brownlee. Panels of experts make the artistic choices and the State Department settles for arranging the tours...
Parlor Talk. The Juilliard is now 17 years old, and its reputation is safely established. Only the aging and conservative Budapest String Quartet approaches Juilliard's mastery of the quartet repertory, but in modern music Juilliard's technique and understanding are unique. The nature of the string quartet inevitably suggests a conversation, and the Juilliard players have an agility and intelligence that pitch and color the tone of each voice to enrich the spirit of the composer. Their Mozart is 18th century parlor talk, Beethoven can sound like stentorian and political argument, Bartok and Schoenberg are full...
...works of Bartok and Schoenberg particularly, and it has played premieres of some of the best chamber music written in this century-notably the second quartets of Elliott Carter and Alberto Ginastera. Such missionary work has helped to stimulate a widening revival of interest in chamber music, and the Juilliard (which receives at least one new composition a week from hopeful composers) takes .paternal delight in the growing number of string quartets around the country. Fear of competition-at their lofty level-never enters their minds...