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He has composed, conducted, published, played, innovated, and originated.
He's won a Pulitzer Prize and is now writing his autobiography. Gunther
Schuller, born in 1925, will be 75 this year. He's credited with the Ragtime
revival in the 1970s, with his New England Conservatory Ragtime Ensemble,
and the coining of the term "Third Stream" in the '50s. Schuller played
French horn in the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra at the same time as he
was playing and working with the greatest jazz lights of the era: Miles
Davis, Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus. He feels that jazz and classical
music are equal, and as such, decided to combine the physical and figurative
elements of both genres into what he called the Third Stream. In 1994,
he won the Pulitzer Prize for his orchestral piece Of Reminiscence
and Reflections.
Listen
in: Hear Gunther Schuller discuss his work, along with
a sampling of his music (RealAudio 3.0; how
to listen)
Music
from the Show
JOPLIN: Maple Leaf Rag
from Scott Joplin: The Red Back Book - New England
Ragtime Ensemble/ Gunther Schuller ANGEL/EMI 47193
SCHULLER: Scherzo-Finale
from Concerto No. 1 for Horn and Orchestra from Gunther
Schuller Three Concertos - Richard Todd, horn; Saarbrücken
Radio Symphony Orchestra/ Gunther Schuller GM Recordings 2044
MINGUS: Revelations (first movement)
from The Birth of the Third Stream - The Brass
Ensemble of the Jazz and Classical Society/ Gunther Schuller COLUMBIA
485 103
VERDI: Opening storm scene from Otello
(complete opera)
National Philharmonic Orchestra/ James Levine RCA 39501
SCHULLER: Blue Dawn into White Heat
from Blue Dawn into White Heat - University of
Minnesota Symphonic Wind Ensemble/ Craig Kirchhoff INNOVA 517
SCHULLER: Arab Village and Pastorale
from "Seven Studies on Themes of Paul Klee"
from Dorati conducts Gershwin, Copland, Schuller, Bloch - Minneapolis
Symphony Orchestra/ Antal Dorati MERCURY 434 329
SCHULLER: Of Reminiscence and Reflections
from Gunther Schuller: Of Reminiscence and Reflections
- North German Radio Philharmonic, Hanover/ Gunther Schuller NEW WORLD
RECORDS 80492
PARKER/GILLESPIE, arr. SCHULLER:
Anthropology
from Gunther Schuller: Jumpin' in the Future-Orange
then Blue GM Recordings 3010
Other Sites on the Web
Gunther
Schuller biography
GM Recordings:
a music label founded by Gunther Schuller
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