The music of Karl Korte has a scope and a variety that makes classification of it difficult. Professor Emeritus of Composition at the University of Texas at Austin and recently a Visiting Professor of Music at Williams College, he is now retired from teaching and lives in Cambridge, N.Y. Raised in Englewood, N.J. his father was a sculptor and was responsible for his earliest exposure to classical music. In high school, his musical influences and activities were mostly in the areas of jazz and popular music, and he played the trumpet in a variety of bands and orchestras. After discharge from th...