János Starker
David Baker
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Dominique-René de Lerma:
When
Bill McGlaughlin was preparing this week's dedication to the cello for Exploring
music, he would not have known that the first program would be aired only a
day after the death of one of his featured artists: János Starker. This superb
musician is our immediate concern because he was among the first of the major
classical artists to give his attention to the non-jazz works of David Baker.
That was Dave's cello sonata, which Janós not only recorded on Columbia's 9-LP
set of the Black composers series (now available only from the College Music
Society), but included it on his recitals. Dave's work soon won the attention
of flutist James Pellerite and violinist Josef Gingold. Some of the
non-jazz audience was a bit slower to respond: I remember the première of
Dave's concerto for violin and jazz band, with Joe as the soloist. That fact
brought out all of Joe's many fans, but some of those who did not wait in the
lobby for Joe's performance in the concert's second half, came in for the start
of the concert, which was pure jazz. These mouldy figs endured the repertoire
as tolerantly as possible, but these events marked an inception of those works
that showed Dave's assertion of stylistic freedom. We thank Janós, Joe, and
Jim for their pioneering work and support.
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Dominique-René
de Lerma
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