Gunther Schuller : a life in pursuit of music and beauty / Gunther Schuller ; with an introduction by Joan Shelley Rubin.
By: Schuller, Gunther [author]
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BookPublisher: Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2011Description: xvi, 664 pages, 12 pages of plates : illustrations ; 27 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781580463423(hardback).Subject(s): Schuller, Gunther | Composers -- United States -- BiographyDDC classification: 780.92 SCH | Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Barcode | |
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| General lending | MTU Cork School of Music Library Lending | 780.92 SCH (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 00208835 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The autobiography of composer and conductor Gunther Schuller and a recounting of the American musical scene through the twentieth century and into the twenty-first.
Finalist for Foreword's Book of the Year in the Biography/Autobiography Category.
Simultaneously the memoir of a famed composer, conductor, and music educator, and an important historical sourcebook on the American musical scene during the twentieth century and into the twenty-first, the autobiography of Gunther Schuller chronicles the first thirty-five years of this multifaceted and expansive figure's life and work.
Schuller began composing music at an early age and joined the Cincinnati Symphony as its principal French horn player at seventeen. Since then he has written for many major orchestras and his work has earned him a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant and the Pulitzer Prize in 1994 for his large-scale orchestral piece Of Reminiscences and Reflections. Perhaps most famously, Schuller contributed to a new stylistic blend between progressive factions of jazz and classical music, for which he coined the term "Third Stream," and collaborated with John Lewis, the ModernJazz Quartet, and others in the development of this style.
In this exquisitely detailed reflection on his early influences, experiences of good fortune, and powers of curiosity, as well as firsthand recounting of critical cultural and social moments and major movers of the jazz world, Schuller here beautifully and honestly narrates a life lived beyond limits.
Gunther Schuller has been on the faculties of the Manhattan School of Music andYale University; he was, for many years, head of contemporary music activities (succeeding Aaron Copland) and Director of the Tanglewood Music Center, and served as president of the New England Conservatory. He is the author of The Swing Era: The Development of Jazz, 1930-1945; Early Jazz: Its Roots and Musical Development; The Compleat Conductor, and many other books.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Childhood -- Boyhood -- Youth -- Interlude -- Discovering jazz -- First years at the Metropolitan Opera -- Plumbing the depths of New York's cultural scene -- Collecting more friends and mentors -- Final years at the Met -- The third stream -- Reencountering Europe.