Title: Easley Blackwood: Not Just a Bridge Master
Product review: "Easley Blackwood: Not Just a Bridge Master"Easley Blackwood is best known for having devised the Blackwood Convention on bidding slams in the card game of contract bridge.His career, however, was as a composer, pianist, and theorist of classical music. For many years he was a professor of music at the University of Chicago.His Symphonies Nos. 1 and 5 are relatively conservative for a composer who was born in 1933. But they are strong, innovative works that are the products of an inventive mind well versed in thematic composition, counterpoint and orchestration.The performances recorded on this CD range from 1958 to 1992. Yet the quality in both is surprisingly good for remastered productions.Cedille Records has produced a real winner here.
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