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...confident. The Wind Ensemble reappeared with Robert Kurka's Suite from The Good Soldier Schweik. This basically tonal work, composed in 1956, treads perilously close to eclecticism as it attempts to combine all the classic styles of twentieth century music: the playful dissonance of Prokofieff, the biting sarcasm of Mahler, a Milhaud-like use of jazz, and insistent rhythms at once reminiscent of Igor Stravinsky and Leonard Bernstein. Combined with the nearly contemporary Town Piper Music of Richard Mohaupt (for the full Band) the work gave the second half of the program a decidedly Broadway cast. In both works Walker...
...struck by a car one night as he walked along a country road near Chapel Hill, North Carolina. His wife and the nun have returned to whisper his praises in a volume of appreciations published this fall. Mrs. Jarrell recalls her husband's enthusiasms for sports cars, Mahler, and a giant cat named Kitten; Sister M. Bernetta Quinn plods patiently through an exposition of "Metamorphoses in Randall Jarrell...
Blues, folk, country and western, ragas, psychedelic light and sound effects, swatches of Mahler, jazzlike improvisations-all are spaded into the mulch by such vital and imaginative groups as the Doors, the Grateful Dead, the Jefferson Airplane, the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, the Byrds and the new British trio, the Cream. Like the Beatles, most of these groups write their own music and thereby try not only to arrive at their own peculiar mixture of elements, but also to stamp their identity on whatever they...
...Mahlerites believe that no other composer speaks to and of our generation better than that short, emotional Austrian Jew who died way back in 1911. Mahler has become part of our way of life. His musical expression was indeed "existentialist," as suggested by Critic Diether. There is also the comment of a friend upon hearing the recording of Mahler's Tenth: "This has been a psychedelic experience." Gustav may even turn out to be a "cure...
...Gustav Mahler Society of California...