The World According to Gunther Schuller

[gtralisfr69]

Someone recommend me some of Schullers music for someone just getting in to him please?

[DJkebu]

lol i thought this was Günther :D

[maxk880]

me too

[thedragonslayerking]

ya me too

[Nomeutenteaccedi]

PCDO

[johncho12]

Gunther Schuller came to our high school (lexington high), and our wind ensemble commissioned his piece - "Nature's Way" (song written for high school level, but ended being grade 5). It was crazy hard and super intense and we were scared that he was gonna be mean but he was such a funny guy...

[CliffX]

This guy came to OSU and gave a pep talk to aspiring conductors such as myself. His advice on translating Sibelius? "You don't fuck around with this stuff."

Truly an inspiration.

[4juxtapose4]

hey do you know what he is doing nowadays? i'm doing a metriculation major work on his baby, third stream music...

[mitropoulos]

More than gifted. Something of a biological freak. How many can have the chops to be able to conduct the premiere of Moondreams, the Australian premiere of Wagner's Parsifal, play horn in the American premiere of Shostakovich 7 under TOscanini and write all the Schuller output, conduct the Metropolitan Opera AND the New York Philharmonic in the same evening, AND revive rgtime still have time to run a major conservatory and a great music festival at the same time.

[bordaz1]

i'm pretty sure an OCD has something to do with it, how else is it possible?

[metBANS]

I just played with Mr. Schuller Conducting! Truly, truly, gifted man, and despite everything I've heard, he was awesome. Really personable, and hilarious.

[walawee]

a true legend