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Gunther Schuller

Listening During Covid, Part 9: Intriguing New Works and New-Sounding C. P. E. Bach

A varied buffet of fresh musical experiences from recent decades and from the mid-1700s.

By: Ralph P. Locke Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Amanda Harberg, Gilbert Kalish, Gunther Schuller, Hyperion, Innova, James Freeman, Marc-Andre Hamelin, Paul Cohen, Ralph P. Locke, Ravello, Robert Freeman, Robert Sibbing, Soprano Summit

Opera CD Review: Gunther Schuller’s Splendid 1970 Children’s Opera Gets Its World-Premiere Recording

A Grimm, but not grim, opera about a Fisherman, his Wife, their Cat, and a wish-granting Flounder.

By: Ralph P. Locke Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Opera, Review Tagged: Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Gil-Rose, Gunther Schuller, John-Updike, Odyssey Opera, The Fisherman and His Wife

Fuse Music Feature: Best Classical Performances of 2015

Of course, it’s a tricky business to summarize a classical music scene as busy and wide as Boston’s.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Commentary, Featured, Music Tagged: Aga Mikolaj, Andris Nelsons, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Boston-Lyric-Opera, Christian Tetzlaff, David Willcocks, Gunther Schuller, Handel & Haydn Society, Joel Sheveloff, Jon Vickers, Odyssey Opera

Concert Review: Boston Modern Orchestra Project’s Gunther Schuller Memorial

As a composer, Gunther Schuller’s legacy is complex and has yet to be settled. Sorting through it all will constitute a great, welcome adventure.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Gil-Rose, Gunther Schuller, Gunther Schuller Memorial Concert

Music Commentary: Jazz and the Piano Concerto — Ave Sine Vale

The great mistake we make as listeners or viewers is passivity. Music deserves and needs our active involvement.

By: Steve Elman Filed Under: Classical Music, Commentary, Jazz, Music Tagged: azz-influenced piano concertos, Camargo Guarnieri, Classical Music, economics, Gunther Schuller, Jazz, Thomas Oboe Lee

Music Appreciation: Gunther Schuller –The Eloquent Ear

Gunther Schuller dove into jazz with passionate hunger, in the process dispelling cultural, class, and racial prejudices.

By: Jon Garelick Filed Under: Classical Music, Commentary, Featured, Jazz, Music Tagged: Gunther Schuller

Music Commentary Series: Jazz and the Piano Concerto — The Zebra in the Room

Much more work could be done fertilizing the fields of cross-cultural music, sowing seeds collected from the great touchstones of American culture – innovation, integration, risk, reward.

By: Steve Elman Filed Under: Classical Music, Commentary, Featured, Jazz, Music Tagged: African-America, Dana Suesse, Duke Ellington, George Gershwin, Gunther Schuller, JIPC jazz-influenced piano concerto, minstrel, Racism

Music Commentary Series: Jazz and the Piano Concerto — The Straddlers, Part One

Time to look at the maverick mavericks, composers with feet firmly planted on either side of the dividing line between jazz and classical.

By: Steve Elman Filed Under: Classical Music, Commentary, Featured, Jazz, Music Tagged: David Amram, Friedrich Gulda, Gunther Schuller, James P. Johnson, jazz piano concerto, JIPC

Fuse Music Commentary Series: Jazz and the Piano Concerto –Revisiting the Jazz Side

What I’ve learned from three years of research and listening is that the piano concerto is an ideal vehicle with which individual composers can experiment

By: Steve Elman Filed Under: Classical Music, Commentary, Featured, Jazz, Music Tagged: Chick Corea, Claus Ogerman, Concertino for Jazz Quartet and Orchestra, Dave Brubeck, Donal Fox, Duke Ellington, Elementals, George Gershwin, George Russell, Gunther Schuller, Iiro Rantala, JIPC jazz-influenced piano concerto, Living Time, Michel Camilo, New World A-Coming, Peace Out, Symbiosis, The Continents: Concerto for Jazz Quintet

Fuse Concert Review: NEC Winds Play Mingus, Schuller, Babbitt (and More)

Charles Peltz leads the NEC Wind Ensemble

The five compositions and one de facto suite played at the NEC Winds and Winds Ensemble performance spoke with six different voices and carried six different messages.

By: Steve Elman Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Jazz, Music, Review, Rock Tagged: Charles Mingus, Charles Peltz, Chris Brubeck, Dave Brubeck, Frank-Zappa, Gunther Schuller, Ken Schaphorst, Milton Babbitt, New England Conservatory, Sammy Nestico

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