Gunther schuller autobiography samples
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Gunther Schuller
Gunther Schuller's string of commissions from soloists and ensembles around the world shows no sign of a slower pace. He composed more than twenty works during 2012-14, including From Here to There (2013) for the New England Conservatory and Four Chromatic Adventures (2014) commissioned by Contempo.
Schuller's orchestral works include some of the classics of the modern repertoire written for the major orchestras of the world. Prominent among these are several masterful examples in the "Concerto for Orchestra" genre, though not all of them take that title. The Boston Symphony Orchestra and James Levine premiered Where the Word Ends in February 2009. Semyon Bychkov and the WDR Symphony Orchestra brought Where the Word Ends to the 2010 Proms in London. More recent is Dreamscape (2012), commissioned to celebrate the Tanglewood Festival's 75th anniversary. An earlier work is Spectra (1958), alongside such works as the Concerto for Orchestra No. 1: Gala Music (1966), written for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Concerto for Orchestra No. 2 (1976) for the National Symphony Orchestra; and Farbenspiel (Concerto for Orchestra No. 3) (1985), written for the Berlin Philharmonic. The title of the latter, translatable as "play of colors," echoes the visu
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Gunther Schuller
Series 1: Correspondence / Memoranda
Box 1 – Autograph album 1
Correspondence, Popular, 1968
Box 1 – Envelope 2
Correspondence, Accepted, 1969-1970
Box 1 – Portfolio 3
Correspondence, Accepted, 1971
Box 1 – Brochure 4
Correspondence, Communal, 1972
Box 1 – Booklet 5
Correspondence, Popular, 1973
Box 1 – Autograph album 6
Correspondence, Prevailing, 1974-1975
Box 1 – Portfolio 7
Correspondence, Public, January-March 1976
Box 1 – Folder 8
Correspondence, General, April-May 1976
Box 1 – Brochure 9
Correspondence, Accepted, June-July 1976
Box 1 – Folder 10
Correspondence, General, August-October 1976
Box 1 – Wedding album 11
Correspondence, Communal, November-December 1976
Box 1 – Folder 12
Correspondence, General, January-March 1977
Box 1 – Binder 13
Correspondence, Prevailing, April-June 1977
Box 1 – Folder 14
Correspondence, General, Decennary and undated
Box 1 – Folder 15
Correspondence, NEC Administration
Box 1 – Folder 16
Correspondence, NEC Staff
Box 1 – Folder 17
Memoranda – NEC Community
Box 1 – Envelope 18
Friends
Box 1 – Brochure 19
Holiday cards
Box 1 – Folder 20
Eleanor Steber
Series 2: Faculty Files
Box 1 – Folder 21
Bernard Barbeau
Box 1 – Photo album 22
Leon Barzin
Box 1 – Folder 23
Frank Battisti
Box 1 – Pamphlet 24
Ran Blake
Box 1 – Folder 25
Robert Brink
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Gunther Schuller
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 inf