Eugene David
...The One-Minute Pundit

Thursday, April 08, 2004


Another P-Ulitzer winner:

Emulating Duke Ellington, [Wynton Marsalis] wrote vast symphonic works. The biggest, Blood on the Fields, won a Pulitzer (the first jazz work to do so), but bored everyone who squirmed through it. (At Avery Fisher Hall in New York, where I saw it, half the crowd left at intermission.)

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