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| | Gunther Schuller (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) |
 | | For me, the most memorable of Schuller's many distinguished concerts was a Mahler Third Symphony he led with the NEC Orchestra 20 years ago. |
 | | If Haitink's was like a broad colorfield canvas, endless shades of the same muted hues, flat and all surface, Schuller's was like a Kandinsky, shapely, but achieving its elegance through the lively and dramatic juxtaposition of lines, angles, facets, and splotches of vibrant color. |
 | | Schuller's Piano Concerto (1981) is a blast from the past -- an energetic, highly charged, personal response to, say, the most colorful and jazziest elements of the two Ravel concertos (Schuller is one of the world's jazz experts), combined with a songful, Rachmaninov-like lyricism. |
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