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...addition to being the sweetest saxophone player (soprano and alto) this side of Stan Getz, Phil Woods is one of the toughest, most durable jazz masters. Originally a follower of Charlie ("Bird") Parker, Woods has survived the ups and downs of decades of jazz with a personal style that has never lost its passion or ingenuity. In this extended set, recorded during performance last November at the Showboat Lounge, Silver Spring. Md., he fronts a six-man combo working the mainstream of jazz today. Standard tunes are blended enticingly with originals by Pianist Mike Melillo, Guitarist Harry Leahey and Woods...
...went last week as the New York Philharmonic gave the world premiere of Star-Child, a 33-minute parable for soprano, solo trombone, boy choristers and large-very large-orchestra by American Composer George Crumb. Gimmickry aside, Star-Child turned out to be a work of immense power, daring and, at times, even horror. A requiem of sorts drawn primarily from two anonymous medieval texts, Dies Irae and Massacre of the Innocents, Star-Child is imbued with the same Blake-like contrast of innocence and evil that characterizes much of Crumb's other work, notably Ancient Voices of Children...
Musical Saw. Star-Child was composed on a Ford Foundation grant for the Philharmonic and for Irene Gubrud, who sang the soprano part splendidly while supported by crutches (be cause of an old back injury). The score is Crumb's first for full orchestra since Echoes of Time and the River, which won him a Pulitzer Prize in 1968. A professor at the University of Pennsylvania, Crumb, 47, is a visionary who has shaken orchestration up in recent years with an ingenious knack for producing new sounds with old instruments and homely domestic objects. The grimly surrealistic Black Angels...
...scenes with Archibald, particularly when she alternately begs him to "think of me sometimes" and warns him to "think of me sometimes" and warns him to "advance at your peril," are especially fine. But Gustafson's talents are most in evidence when she launches into song. Her strong, pure soprano elevates Patience's plight to operatic heights, her superb diction rarely obscuring Gilbert's lyrics...
Patricia DiRe, soprano, and William Merrill, piano, will give a concert in The Eliot House Library...