Word: seriousness
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...sense is it is a problem people are being very quickly made aware of because the problem is growing more serious," Verdier added. "As awareness grows, people's willingness to pay private premiums and higher Medicare taxes will grow...
THERE seems to be a widespread myth that contemporary music attracts only the serious listener. Yet not all of the contemporary music being composed today is geared exclusively for music majors. One need not know how to whistle in retrograde to appreciate the infectious parodies of that pied piper of contemporary music, composer Peter Schickele...
Ironically, Peter Schickele heralds from this intellectual school of musicmaking. Trained at Swarthmore and Juilliard, Schickele started out as a composer of serious music. It was an accident of fate that led Schickele to begin composing humorous works. While studying at Juilliard in 1965, Schickele got some friends together and bought out Town Hall to perform some of their more irreverent compositions. So successful was this concert that it has turned into an annual tradition selling out now for nearly 23 years...
This Saturday night, Schickele will conduct the Harvard Wind Ensemble and Harvard Jazz Band in a program of both his humorous and serious material. The "Grand Serenade" and the "March of the Cute Little Wood Sprite" were works specifically commissioned by the Harvard Wind Ensemble. Schickele says he ordinarily would have declined writing works for band, citing his "not so pleasant association" of playing bassoon in his high school band. But upon the suggestion of his publisher, he finally decided to take up the task, he says...
...third work on the program will be the premiere of Schickele's jazz composition, "Harvard Fair," which was commissioned by the Harvard Jazz Band this year. "Harvard Fair" is what Schickele deadpans as being "a straight, as opposed to a gay, piece." Schickele contends that he "has always written serious music." He describes his style of jazz as being a "down home, post-bop funk that falls somewhere between free from and Dixieland...