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100 1 a| Schuller, Gunther.=| ^A636664;

245 10 a| Gunther Schuller :b| a life in pursuit of music and beauty /c| Gunther Schuller ; with an introduction by Joan Shelley Rubin.;

260 a| Rochester, NY :b| University of Rochester Press,c| 2011.;

300 a| xvi, 664 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates :b| illustrations ;c| 27 cm.;

336 a| text2| rdacontent;

337 a| unmediated2| rdamedia;

338 a| volume2| rdacarrier;

490 1 a| Eastman studies in music;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references and index.;

505 0 a| Introduction: The musician as mediator / Joan Shelley Rubin -- 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.;

520 a| 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 Modem Jazz Quartet, and others in the development of this style.;

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700 1 a| Rubin, Joan Shelley,d| 1947-e| writer of introduction.=| ^A118027;

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Gunther Schuller : a life in pursuit of music and beauty / Gunther Schuller ; with an introduction by Joan Shelley Rubin.

Author/creator	Schuller, Gunther
Other author	Rubin, Joan Shelley, 1947- writer of introduction.
Format	Book
Publication Info	Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2011.
Description	xvi, 664 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 27 cm.
Subjects	Schuller, Gunther. Composers--United States. --Biography.

Series	Eastman studies in music Eastman studies in music. ^A494093
Contents	Introduction: The musician as mediator / Joan Shelley Rubin -- 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.
Abstract	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 Modem Jazz Quartet, and others in the development of this style.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN	2011028317
ISBN	9781580463423 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN	1580463428 (hardcover : alk. paper)

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