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...Through his interest in jazz, Schuller met the pianist John Lewis of the Modern Jazz Quartet, and then proceeded to meet all of the jazz greats of the day, like Charlie Parker, Miles Davis and Charles Mingus. He also played french horn on the great Miles Davis/Gil Evans albums, Birth of the Cool (1950) and Porgy and Bess...
...Schuller's love of both the classical and jazz idioms prompted him to envision a reconciliation and integration of the two. At a lecture at Brandeis University in 1957, he coined the term "Third Stream." Influenced by compositions of Milhaud, Honneger and Krenek from the 1920s, as well as Ellington, Woody Herman and the more recent experiments of Stan Kenton, Schuller "realized that there was already a potential development and tradition, which could and should lead to the coming together of classical and jazz, which essentially were being segregated by the institutions of music. I call it Third Stream because...
...Schuller has no particular sound or aesthetic ideal when it comes to Third Stream music. "It's totally open; that's the whole beauty. I'm not interested in anything that's closed. We all approached it in different ways. It's a music which enables the creation of unique musical profiles." Indeed, compositions as diverse as Milton Babbitt's dodecaphonic All Set and John Lewis' Three Little Feelings are both considered Third Stream. Reflecting on what has become of the movement, Schuller says, "Now it's become like 10,000th stream, because ethnic and folk and vernacular music...
...composer, Schuller has written over 180 works in virtually every genre. His tight schedule forces him to compose in his limited free time. "Because I'm on the road all the time, I compose in airplanes, hotel lobbies, bathrooms, you name it. I'm not one of those who has been able to sit at home and write." Schuller's beautifully crafted works have been played by some of the finest performers and orchestras in the world. He received a Pulitzer Prize in 1994 for Of Reminiscences and Reflections, and his early work, Seven Studies on Themes of Paul Klee...
...Schuller has also established himself as a leading conductor. He is known for his controversial but influential views on conducting. "I really believe in a philosophy which has total, unequivocal respect for the composer and for the score. I reject the word 'interpretation.' My whole way of conducting is to do exactly and imaginatively what the composer has written. I don't follow some tradition or recording that some famous conductor did ten years ago. My book, The Complacent Conductor, has been attacked by thousands of conductors. They put their egos first, in a way saying, 'Look, I'm better...