{"id":1152,"date":"2015-06-22T11:49:02","date_gmt":"2015-06-22T15:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markgustavson.com\/blog\/?p=1152"},"modified":"2016-10-02T11:51:59","modified_gmt":"2016-10-02T15:51:59","slug":"rip-mr-schuller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markgustavson.com\/blog\/rip-mr-schuller\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP Mr. Schuller"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gunther Schuller, Composer Who Synthesized Classical and Jazz, Dies at 89<\/a><\/p>\n

Mr. Schuller was the first important musical figure I met. I was a 19-year old composition fellow at Tanglewood and knew very well who he was and what he stood for in contemporary music before I arrived there. My first introduction to Mr. Schuller was through Jerry Coker’s book “Improvising Jazz” with a forward by Gunther Schuller which I bought in 1974. When I first arrived at Tanglewood I feared him but his disarming smile turned fear into great respect.<\/p>\n

I attended most of his orchestra rehearsals, with score in hand, throughout that summer\u2014absorbing. He presented a broad spectrum of music that summer, including Amerique<\/em> by Varese (by the way Mr. Schuller’s interview<\/a> with Varese is a must read), Hymnen<\/em> by Stockhausen, Symphony #7 by Sibelius and Don Quixote<\/em> by Strauss.<\/p>\n

I fondly remember nearly each morning on my way down from Saranak to the Hawthorn House observing Mr. Schuller, sometimes with his son George arriving through the Tanglewood gates in a large early ’70s beater-of-a-car. He was usually wearing a loudly patterned shirt, sometimes with stains on it. I would think, approvingly, this is how famous musicians live.<\/p>\n

That summer brought the premiere of Mr. Schuller’s Dea\u00ef<\/em> using three orchestras with three conductors in different tempi who were coordinated by a CCTV camera. Afterwards I congratulated Mr. Schuller in the green room and\u00a0I said, “I really enjoyed your piece.”, to that he enigmatically responded, “I knew you would.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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