Thursday, July 21, 2011

KU Wind Ensemble records Morton Gould for Naxos

What separates the truly great artists from the humdrum run-of-the-mill types is a certain undeniable posthumous relevance. Millions still enjoy watching Alfred Hitchcock movies or standing in awe at Claude Monet’s Water Lilies. And in the world of wind band, a niche genre in which countless students develop as musicians, the music of American composer Morton Gould (1913-1996) occupies a similar space of significance.

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