{"id":6725,"date":"2015-06-21T18:22:25","date_gmt":"2015-06-22T01:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=6725"},"modified":"2015-06-21T21:59:07","modified_gmt":"2015-06-22T04:59:07","slug":"farewell-to-gunther-schuller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2015\/06\/farewell-to-gunther-schuller\/","title":{"rendered":"Farewell To Gunther Schuller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[contextly_auto_sidebar id=&#8221;V9xcnr3kYNZjxUa1tNMFGLo5TLhnMu1r&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Gunther-Schuller.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6726\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Gunther-Schuller.jpg\" alt=\"Gunther Schuller\" width=\"247\" height=\"166\" \/><\/a>Gunther Schuller, who was prominent in classical music and stimulated attention to a hybrid movement in jazz, died today in Boston. He was 89. In addition to his authorship of influential modern classical pieces, Schuller in the late 1950s melded jazz and classical influences and came up with a label for it that stuck: Third Stream. In the l960s and l970s he was president of the New England Conservatory. His classical composition \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Of Reminiscences and Reflections\u00e2\u20ac\u009d won a Pulitzer Prize in 1994.<\/p>\n<p>In jazz, Schuller first won prominence playing French horn in Miles Davis\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 1949\/1950 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Birth-Cool-Miles-Davis\/dp\/B00005614M\/?_encoding=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;tag=rifftidougram-20\" target=\"_blank\">Birth Of The Cool<\/a> ensemble. Later in the fifties, he, Davis, John Lewis, George Russell, Charles Mingus and others made Third Stream music a phenomenon that has left a lasting impression. His \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Symphony for Brass and Percussion\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is an example his marriage of idioms. In this conversation with Frank J. Oteri of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newmusicbox.org\/articles\/gunther-schuller-dies-at-89\/\" target=\"_blank\">New Music Box<\/a> website, Schuller discusses several aspects of his career, including his use of the twelve-tone row in composition and the system in the top levels of the jazz community for endorsing new talent.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tWVWgpV1OXQ?rel=0\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>For expanded thoughts on Schuller and the Third Stream, see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2010\/03\/bernstein_and_schuller_in_the.html\" target=\"_blank\">this <em>Rifftides<\/em> entry<\/a> from five years ago. I will have more about him in the next post.<\/p>\n<p>Gunther Schuller, RIP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[contextly_auto_sidebar id=&#8221;V9xcnr3kYNZjxUa1tNMFGLo5TLhnMu1r&#8221;] Gunther Schuller, who was prominent in classical music and stimulated attention to a hybrid movement in jazz, died today in Boston. He was 89. In addition to his authorship of influential modern classical pieces, Schuller in the late 1950s melded jazz and classical influences and came up with a label for it that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6726,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6725","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-main","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}