{"id":6854,"date":"2015-06-23T19:06:14","date_gmt":"2015-06-23T18:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/?p=6854"},"modified":"2015-06-23T19:13:29","modified_gmt":"2015-06-23T18:13:29","slug":"rip-gunther-schuller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/2015\/06\/23\/rip-gunther-schuller\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP Gunther Schuller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I met Gunther at his wonderful festival at Sandpoint in the 1990&#8217;s. On the second night of the festival, I ran into him in the bar and in spite of our vast difference in age, achievement and knowledge, had one of the all-time great bar hangs of my life. Gunther&#8217;s public persona could be quite imperious, but one-on-one, one quickly realised that everything he did and said was motivated by an incredibly deep love of music. The man lived music- he only slept about 3-4 hours a day, and while everyone else was talking, resting, eating or chatting, he was always busy composing, writing, organizing or producing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/2015\/06\/23\/rip-gunther-schuller\/gunther\/#main\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6855\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-6855\" src=\"http:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Gunther-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Gunther\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Gunther-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Gunther-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Gunther.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sandpoint was a great encapsulation of everything he loved, with courses in chamber music (which I was there for), conducting, composition and modern jazz. I wish I could have done them all, but Gunther being Gunther, every program was an all-day, every-day project.<\/p>\n<p>He quickly picked up on my interest in conducting and we had some inspiring talks about his ethos of score study. One thing you can say about Gunther- he knew exactly what he believed when it came to music.<\/p>\n<p>To my delight, he also invited me to play as cellist and later guitarist and banjo-player on what I think were the last few tours of the New England Ragtime Ensemble. Those concerts were thrilling. If you only know Gunther through his rather Old Testament writings on conducting, it&#8217;s quite a different thing to see him beaming away smiling rehearsing and conducting Joplin (always from memory) with such joy and ease.<\/p>\n<p>He leaves behind an incredible body of work. I pity his archivist!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Solace - A Mexican Serenade\" width=\"1080\" height=\"810\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/409o7gQ3b-4?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/2015\/06\/23\/rip-gunther-schuller\/\" send=\"false\" layout=\"box_count\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"true\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I met Gunther at his wonderful festival at Sandpoint in the 1990&#8217;s. On the second night of the festival, I ran into him in the bar and in spite of our vast difference in age, achievement and knowledge, had one of the all-time great bar hangs of my life. Gunther&#8217;s public persona could be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1050],"class_list":["post-6854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-opion-life-as-a-performing-musician","tag-gunther-schuller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6854"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6857,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6854\/revisions\/6857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}