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Karlton Hester: Musicism for Your Imagination: Alive at Barnes Hall

by Robert Spencer
August 1, 1999

Karlton Hester is an assistant professor of music at Cornell University, where this disc was recorded. He is an accomplished multi-instrumentalist with a particularly affinity for the flute, although he is equally at home on the tenor sax (as well as the soprano, which he plays less often, and the synthesizer, which he plies like a mad acid-rock keyboardist - see the synthesizer workout “Equipoise"). “Musicism" is a term he coined for the interaction of dance, poetry, music, and presumably ...