This Naxos release provides a productive meeting point between two underrated musical phenomena: the compositions of Morton Gould and the performance tradition of the American university wind band, in which even groups far from the centers of American concert music offer musicianship that would be enviable in any country. The University of Kansas Wind Ensemble under Scott Weiss is consistently smooth and lively here, and the contribution of clarinetist Stephanie Zelnick in the album's title work, a sort of clarinet rhapsody ...
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This Naxos release provides a productive meeting point between two underrated musical phenomena: the compositions of Morton Gould and the performance tradition of the American university wind band, in which even groups far from the centers of American concert music offer musicianship that would be enviable in any country. The University of Kansas Wind Ensemble under Scott Weiss is consistently smooth and lively here, and the contribution of clarinetist Stephanie Zelnick in the album's title work, a sort of clarinet rhapsody with band, are compelling indeed. The title Derivations may put one in mind of the dubious quasi-scientific concepts of high modernism, but the program offers prime examples of Gould's vernacular-oriented but rigorous style, one that ought to provide a model for more composers than it does. Much of the music takes the march as a point of departure, with just enough of a shading-off into jazz to provide general audiences with a point of reference. The opening Fanfare for Freedom was...
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