John Dalmas wrote: >Steve Schwartz wrote: > >>Gould is one of those American interwar and postwar musicians - along >>with Piston, Diamond, Schuman, Sessions, Mennin, Fine, Talma, Hanson, >>Foss, Blitzstein, Lees, Bergsma, Shapero, and Thomson - too good to lose. > >I find this an example of extravagance by association. I would trade that entire list for keeping Ellington, Armstrong, Goodman, Gershwin, Coltrane, Davis and Mingus. And I don't think I am alone in believing that American accomplishments in jazz out shadow American "classical" accomplishments during the period by a wide margin. Gould's very sense of Americanism comes, to a great extent, from his propulsive use of Jazz rhythms and the sureness of his melodic handling of them. While he isn't ever going to be a major composer, there are many composers who wrote only a few works that have real durability, but without whom concert life would be poorer. Stirling Newberry [log in to unmask] http://www.mp3.com/ssn