NEW YORK (AP) – Gunther Schuller, a horn player, educator and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer who was the leading proponent of the Third Stream movement fusing jazz and classical music, died Sunday at ...

The Gunther Schuller Society and New England Conservatory's Contemporary Musical Arts and Jazz Studies departments will honor the birthday of the most transformative figure in NEC's history with From ...

Next Friday is composer Gunther Schuller’s 88th birthday, but he hasn’t planned a celebration. “I’ve had so many birthdays,” he explains, “I suppose something will come up.” It doesn’t seem ...

This June 28, 1967, file photo shows Gunther Schuller, who wrote and directed the opera "Visitation," at the Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center in New York City. Schuller was the leading ...

For the past 20 years, the Northwest Bach Festival has been headed by Gunther Schuller. A composer, musician and scholar, Schuller is perhaps most widely known as the man who coined the term “Third ...

So how did one of the most respected and famous musicians in all of America find his way into a 30-year relationship with the Inland Northwest? Gunther Schuller was engaged to conduct the Spokane ...

LENOX — It happened "out of the blue," Oliver Knussen recalls. Gunther Schuller asked to be taken on a driving vacation around England and Scotland. They had been student and mentor at Tanglewood.

Your Letters: Tiananmen, Nuts, Gunther SchullerHost Liane Hansen reads letters from listeners about NPR's Alisa Joyce Barba's piece on the 20th anniversary of China's Tiananmen Square, food ...

Gunther Schuller never graduated from high school. He took a different path. A prodigy on flute and French horn, he earned his musical education as a member of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, which ...

What might seem the most innocuous music is often the most avant-garde, the most challenging, and the spark that forces the question as to what are the boundaries of jazz. Gunther Schuller's "Journey ...

The Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, conductor and educator ranged widely in his musicianship. With colleagues from Miles Davis to Frank Zappa, he... Gunther Schuller, Who Bridged Classical Music And ...