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However, if Marsalis is tremendously accomplished, he is almost equally controversial. Many critics and musicians label Marsalis an artistic conservative with exclusionary aesthetic views, and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra has been frequently accused of reverse racism and gender discrimination in its hiring practices...
...Grammy Awards for his jazz and classical trumpeting skills. As a composer of the jazz oratorio Blood on the Fields, he became the first winner of a Pulitzer Prize for a non-classical composition. As an author, public speaker, public television personality and director of the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, he has become a musical diplomat, a 21st-century Leonard Bernstein, lecturing and performing on six continents...
...Kristina Nilsson, concertmaster of the Pro Arte Orchestra of Boston, which Schuller conducts, describes Schuller as an "iconoclast" in the conducting profession, but says he "doesn't second-guess composers." Fellow composer and Harvard Professor Bernard Rands, whose own works have been conducted by Schuller, acknowledges Schuller's influence while lamenting, "In keeping with the perverse tradition of appointing only non-Americans to the directorships of our major orchestras, Schuller has been denied the mechanism through which he might have been an even more influential figure in American musical life...
...affectation, a man of his word; an indefatigable worker on behalf of music and musicians and a thorough professional from head to toe...He has dedicated his life to music and as such is an exemplary mentor and inspiration." Tom Haunton, principal french hornist with the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra and a former student of Schuller's at NEC, says, "I would always want to play at my peak when I go in there to play with him...There are few people who are I think as well versed in almost any aspect of performance and music." And Nilsson shares...
...Gunther Schuller will be conducting the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra in Sanders Theatre on Sunday, Nov. 26, at 3 pm, in a program of works by Grieg, Vanhal and Dittersdorf, as well as a world premiere by Theodore Antoniou...