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]>