Steven Schwartz wrote:
>The Czech composer Erwin Schulhoff died in 1942 in the Wuelzburg
>concentration camp. A Communist and a Jew, thus doubly doomed, he had been
>caught trying to flee to the East. Not many have even heard his music,
>much less know it - a comparable figure in that regard might be Goldschmidt
>- but almost all of it is musical and well-written. The Czech government
>in the stereo LP era recorded his double concerto for flute and piano and
>his cantata setting of the Communist Manifesto.\
I think the revelation that is waiting in Schulhoff's music - and often
present in the performances conducted by Gunther Schuller is the element of
dadistic layering and collage which so often drives his early - and daring
- music. If this is absent from the recording that Mr. Schwartz reviews,
then it is a tremendous void in the performance indeed.
Stirling S Newberry <[log in to unmask]>