Gunther Schuller
Gunther Schuller
Gunther Alexander Schuller was an American composer, conductor, horn player, author, historian and jazz musician...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionComposer
Date of Birth22 November 1925
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
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What happened in Cincinnati, is I actually met Duke Ellington and many of the great musicians of that time simply by my going to all these nightclubs.
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The record company started as an adjunct to that, to give young composers their first recorded performances; to give young musicians their first debut on a recording. These are all things that big record companies would never touch because there is no money in it!
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That was more or less coincidental in the sense that my parents wanted me to come back to New York because that's the center of musical activity still to this day, more or less, and so I auditioned for the Metropolitan Opera.