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third stream

noun

  1. a style of music that uses features of both jazz and classical music in an attempt to develop a new and distinctive musical idiom.


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Origin of third stream1

First recorded in 1960–65
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A third stream comes when the resulting pig iron is turned into steel by cooking it a bit further—baking off most of the remaining carbon—and alloying it with additives such as chromium or titanium.

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As I wrote in last week’s Voices of the Free Press newsletter, this is becoming a third stream of revenue for some.

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But there was a third stream, not quite cozy, not quite noir, dominated by women, almost entirely rooted around suspense of the psychological variety.

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Mr. Marsalis recalled auditioning 40 years ago for the composer and conductor Gunther Schuller — renowned for his “third stream” style, combining jazz and classical approaches — for a prestigious spot at Tanglewood, the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s summer home and academy in the Berkshires.

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The crossbreeding of classical and jazz has a long history, stretching back to the Third Stream movement of the 1960s.

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