Found this page on a search for more on Robert Graettinger because I am so blown away by Kenton's "conducts This Modern World" / "City Of Glass" material ...

Wow. I really like this show. Haven't even finished the show yet ... I couldn't wait to write.

As Victor wrote, I too think you've really captured the optimistic/experimental feel of the progressive music of this time. In my opinion, that is completely gone now. Experimental music after this is so different. I really wish that I could have experienced this time. It really fascinates me.

Gil Evans is huge for me. I was introduced to him through the Miles stuff years ago. Jazz composers like Gil Evans and John Lewis are so good and so overlooked today. Moondog should definitely be in here. He was an absolute genius. I agree with the Elmer Bernstein suggestion as well. I would also suggest some Dick Hyman stuff, possibly Enoch Light, as well and maybe other material on his Command label, and this Claude Thornhill (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59IN9ztodfc) from "The REAL Birth Of The Cool". For me it bridges the "swingin' years" into the "cool". Found this record a few months ago at a record store and the owner was surprised how excited I was...

Thank you for this amazing show.

Another "hoo-ray!" for a super-fine show and another vote for Sauter and Finnegan in this category. But especially Eddie Sauter's collaboration with Stan Getz; "Focus". I very much agree that John Cage should be seen in this light (maybe even more than as a classical composer).

Other composers that come to mind are other third-streamers (like George Russell): Andrew Hill and Bill Russo (and of course) Gunther Schuller. I'd include Sonny Clarke, Ahmad Jamal, Fred Katz, and maybe even Art Van Damme.

A lot of early synthesizer explorers could be included, too. People like Mort Garson, Gershon Kinsley, Jean_jaques Perrey, and Delia Derbyshire.

Thanks again for another wonderful show!

God, I love Jimmy Giuffre so much! I always get back to his trios with Jim Hall. There's often an airy, almost spiritual quality in his recordings, like "Green country".

Here in Europe we didn't have Eames but people like Charlotte Perriand or Le Corbusier, and avant garde music was more serialist than jazzy…

Wonderful show! When you described the concept, my mind immediately went to Jimmy Giuffre's recordings with Tony Schwartz. I think that another of Schwartz's affiliates, Moondog could also fit the bill.

Great post. Love all the music played. One Artist I would add is Esqiuvel. I would pair him with Saarinen.

Fun show.

Here is the song that most exemplifies the period for me!

http://animatress.blogspot.com/2007/05/soleil-rocketship-animatic_28.html

Fun show.

Here is the song that most exemplifies the period for me!

http://animatress.blogspot.com/2007/05/soleil-rocketship-animatic_28.html

I would love to hear something by Ernest Bloch. I had his wedding marches played at my wedding, 25 years ago, because of his mid-century modernity.

Great show! You've really captured the optimistic/experimental feel of the '50s.

wow, love mid-20th century furniture & design and love your show tonight!

I really love this show. One of the best ever - don't want the hour to end.

man, you have some excellent shows! i was listening to this and wanted to tell you that you gotta fit in some elmer bernstein, that he is soundtrack musician in all of the shorts of the greatest philosophical modernists ever! and then i opened your show page. right on!

My beloved, extremely wicked, stepmother was trained as a classical musician, and played cello in a marvelous string quartet. One of her aunts was Rebecca Clarke, the British composer. After she developed dementia, I mentioned that some people think jazz is America's classical music. Her reply, "I believe you're right!"

Sauter-Finegan.