Gunther Schuller

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  • french frank
    Administrator/Moderator
    • Feb 2007
    • 30507

    Gunther Schuller

    In Music Matters, Saturday 15 October 2011, 12:15

    Tom Service interviews Gunther Schuller.
    It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.
  • Sydney Grew
    Banned
    • Mar 2007
    • 754

    #2

    Mr. Schuller, who wrote two string quartettes and at least one symphony, also presented over two hundred wireless programmes about contemporary music, and "fulfilled a life-long dream by conducting Parsifal in Australia."

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    • aka Calum Da Jazbo
      Late member
      • Nov 2010
      • 9173

      #3
      he was a very significant figure in the highly creative scene in NYC centred on the Lenox School

      his coinage of 'Third Stream' overshadows his key roles as enabler and educator of others ...

      this is well worth reading, a seminal essay/lecture

      thanks for the pointer ff, look forward to listening
      According to the best estimates of astronomers there are at least one hundred billion galaxies in the observable universe.

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