Word: mule
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...contributed a new instrument to the military band. In time his saxophone traveled across the Atlantic, became a mainstay of jazz. But the saxophone has always had its strict classical disciples. Last week one of the best and most influential of them, France's Marcel Mule, made his U.S. debut with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and convincingly demonstrated just how good the serious alto sax can sound...
Saxophonist Mule chose for his debut program the works of two contemporary French composers-Jacques Ibert's Concertino da Camera and Henri Tomasi's Ballade. What the audience heard was an open, evenly controlled sound that could sing with a clean vibrato or a finely trimmed staccato, swell robustly and solidly with no trace of the breathy "air sound." Under Mule's scurrying fingers, the saxophone sometimes took on the quick sheen of strings, or the water-clear inflections of the flute, or the warm quality of the bassoon. Gone were the wah-wahs and wobbles...
Jazzmen scorn most classically trained sax players, but frequently dig Mule. Says the Dave Brubeck Quartet's Paul Desmond, a brilliant alto-sax artist: ''He has the quality of purity. He's made the sax sound good, which no other legit sax player has done." In the 19203, onetime Schoolteacher Mule served in the Garde Républicaine. which has France's finest military band. He studied the few orchestral works for saxophone then at hand, including Richard Strauss's Domestic Symphony, Bizet's L'Arlésienne. After a brief flirtation...
...Symphonies. The Boston Symphony had already been on a "Western tour" (Rochester to Cincinnati); later in Boston it would introduce highly touted Russian Violinist Leonid Kogan and present the novelty of French Saxophone Virtuoso Marcel Mule. The Chicago Symphony was recruiting a brand-new 150-voice choir under famed Choral Conductor Margaret Hillis; the Cleveland Orchestra opened its 40th season with Conductor George Szell directing the first of nine commissioned works: Alvin Etler's Concerto in One Movement...
...flight through space; a 25? piece buys a skyway ride to Fantasyland, reposing behind" Sleeping Beauty's moated castle, where still another ride whisks visitors over a make-believe London, Never-Never Land and Captain Hook's Hideaway. At nearby Frontierland, a Wild West stagecoach and a mule train churn the dust; if business slacks, villainous Black Bart conveniently shoots it out with Sheriff Lucky in a haze of gun smoke, later distributes used cartridge cases to the newly corralled crowd. On Disney's miniature Mississippi, a five-eighths scale stern wheeler carries 9,000 landlubbers daily...