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Table of Contents
Introduction: The Musician as Mediator, by Joan Shelley Rubin
Childhood
Boyhood
Youth
Discovering Jazz
First Years at the Metropolitan Opera
Plumbing the Depths of New York's Cultural Scene
Collecting More Friends and Mentors
Final Years at the Met
The Third Stream
Reencountering Europe
Childhood
Boyhood
Youth
Discovering Jazz
First Years at the Metropolitan Opera
Plumbing the Depths of New York's Cultural Scene
Collecting More Friends and Mentors
Final Years at the Met
The Third Stream
Reencountering Europe
Reviews
The book's excursions into the jazz scene result in some of Schuller's most vivid writing, as his enthusiasm for the music leaps off the page. His conversations with Karlheinz Stockhausen make for riveting reading. Jazz aficionados, classical music scholars, and students of New York's cultural life will all find much interest in these pages. AMERICAN MUSIC
An amazing book. . . . Schuller had a phenomenal knack of being in the right place at the right time. . . . An insatiable thirst for knowledge and understanding of all aspects of human life and culture . . . drive the book and the narrative with breathtaking energy. . . . An important document of cultural history. TEMPO
The dictatorial behaviour of many conductors [Reiner, Toscanini] is brought into full view, with specific examples. . . . Well produced and reasonably priced. MUSIC & LETTERS [Peter Dickinson]
If you'd done a quarter of what Gunther Schuller has done in his lifetime, I'd want to read your memoirs, too. . . . He is the only musician in the world who can claim to have played with Maria Callas, Miles Davis, Ethel Merman, Frank Sinatra, Igor Stravinsky and Arturo Toscanini. . . . Compulsively readable. WALL STREET JOURNAL [Terry Teachout]
An essential document of twentieth-century music, in all its forms. Time and again Schuller has been witness to the making of history, and more than once he has made it himself. No future account of the period will be able to ignore this book. --Alex Ross
A revelatory document. . . as the narrative evolves we are immersed in a rich cultural world of music and musicians from all stylistic persuasions as well as references to art, literature, philosophy, and romance. --Yehudi Wyner, Pulitzer Prize winning composer, pianist, conductor
Those who study and continue the cross-fertilization between jazz and classical music will find here a treasure-trove of essential insights. A must-read-book for musicians, scholars, and music lovers. --Augusta Read Thomas, composer, University Professor, University of Chicago
One of the world's great musical explorers gives a back-stage look at such history-making events as the 1949 Fritz Reiner-led "Salome" at the Metropolitan with Ljuba Welitsch and recording sessions in the '50s with Miles Davis, John Lewis, and Ornette Coleman.
--Travis Rivers, music critic [Spokane, Washington]
An essential book...altogether invaluable. CLASSICAL MUSIC
An amazing book. . . . Schuller had a phenomenal knack of being in the right place at the right time. . . . An insatiable thirst for knowledge and understanding of all aspects of human life and culture . . . drive the book and the narrative with breathtaking energy. . . . An important document of cultural history. TEMPO
The dictatorial behaviour of many conductors [Reiner, Toscanini] is brought into full view, with specific examples. . . . Well produced and reasonably priced. MUSIC & LETTERS [Peter Dickinson]
If you'd done a quarter of what Gunther Schuller has done in his lifetime, I'd want to read your memoirs, too. . . . He is the only musician in the world who can claim to have played with Maria Callas, Miles Davis, Ethel Merman, Frank Sinatra, Igor Stravinsky and Arturo Toscanini. . . . Compulsively readable. WALL STREET JOURNAL [Terry Teachout]
An essential document of twentieth-century music, in all its forms. Time and again Schuller has been witness to the making of history, and more than once he has made it himself. No future account of the period will be able to ignore this book. --Alex Ross
A revelatory document. . . as the narrative evolves we are immersed in a rich cultural world of music and musicians from all stylistic persuasions as well as references to art, literature, philosophy, and romance. --Yehudi Wyner, Pulitzer Prize winning composer, pianist, conductor
Those who study and continue the cross-fertilization between jazz and classical music will find here a treasure-trove of essential insights. A must-read-book for musicians, scholars, and music lovers. --Augusta Read Thomas, composer, University Professor, University of Chicago
One of the world's great musical explorers gives a back-stage look at such history-making events as the 1949 Fritz Reiner-led "Salome" at the Metropolitan with Ljuba Welitsch and recording sessions in the '50s with Miles Davis, John Lewis, and Ornette Coleman.
--Travis Rivers, music critic [Spokane, Washington]
An essential book...altogether invaluable. CLASSICAL MUSIC
