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It's been nearly 50 years since his DG recording, and yet there's the same spring in Maazel's musical step, the same terpsichorean swing, the same keen ear catching every timbral nuance of Ravel's cornucopia of wondrous sounds.
He encourages every composer to listen to and study as many different genres, styles and timbral combinations as possible, emphasizing that exploring the unfamiliar is a must.
His mature style seemed to have several distinct timbral identities on his broad range of instruments: dark, loose-pitched and occasionally even raw in a Charles Lloyd-like manner on tenor sax; poignant and pure-toned on soprano; airy and diaphanous on flute; folksy, low-pitched and rather European-sounding on clarinet.
 
 
 
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