Gunther Schuller: Conducting? He wrote the book

He might be the conscience of conductors, but Gunther Schuller is also a virtuoso jazz musician and an acclaimed composer. And that's not the half of it. Tom Service meets himGunther Schuller looks at me and smiles. "The thing that may make me unique is that I have simultaneously had seven full-time careers in music over the last 50 or 60 years. That's more than Leonard Bernstein." If anybody other than Schuller were making that claim, you'd raise your eyebrows at the sheer hubris. But Schuller ...

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