Of course, it’s a tricky business to summarize a classical music scene as busy and wide as Boston’s.
Gunther Schuller
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.
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.
Arts Fuse Appreciation: Gunther Schuller –The Eloquent Ear
Gunther Schuller dove into jazz with passionate hunger, in the process dispelling cultural, class, and racial prejudices.
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.
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.
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
Fuse Concert Review: NEC Winds Play Mingus, Schuller, Babbitt (and More)
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.
Music Preview: Navigating the Headwaters of the Third Stream
NEC is closed tonight but much of the repertoire on this program is also scheduled for a concert on March 6.
Music Review/Commentary: Gunther Schuller’s Gift of Giving – Boston Conservatory’s New Music Festival III
Boston Conservatory’s New Music Festival is inspiring a series of commentaries from Fuse Jazz Critic Steve Elman. Here is his third installment, which focuses on Gunther Schuller, who has inspired at least four generations of artists and revitalized a venerable institution of higher musical learning.