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...grand piano, his large head listing heavily to port, his horn rims and high forehead giving him a scholarly appearance. Before him stood four blowers on trumpet, trombone and saxophones, men whose personal styles seemed almost perfectly adapted to the Gulda idiom. During the evening's five half-hour sets they played a round dozen of Gulda's own compositions-pretty, slightly sentimental ditties with such names as Air from Other Planets, Dodo, Scruby, New Shoes-plus his arrangements of other men's tunes. Whatever the music, it had one mark of good jazz: it stimulated...
...like a bull whip; a choleric saxophone honking mating-call sounds; an electric guitar turned up so loud that its sound shatters and splits; a vocal group that shudders and exercises violently to the beat while roughly chanting either a near-nonsense phrase or a moronic lyric in hillbilly idiom...
Ivory Tower (Gale Storm; Dot). Another waltz in the rinky-dink style that seems to go with the rock-'n'-roll idiom. The simple-minded but bestselling message: "It's cold, so cold, in your ivory tower, and warm, so warm in my arms...
...musical studies comparatively late in life, after he became an English major at Harvard in 1926. Those were the years when Serge Koussevitzky was leading the Boston Symphony through the most radical new music, and Carter caught fire. His first major work was a ballet, Pocahontas, in an advanced idiom; then came a symphony, a piano sonata (written on a Guggenheim grant), choral works and chamber music. Today he has a backlog of commissions that will keep him busy for another year...
...slim (see above), but for students in springtime they blossom like daffodils. Last week three U.S. schools offered five modern operas, composed by faculty members and a graduate student and staged by the schools' opera workshops. All of them were in a conservative idiom, ranging in style from Gilbert & Sullivan to Menotti. The five...