As rich as Cincinnati was in live music, New York was even more.
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The record company started as an adjunct to that, to give young composers their first recorded performances; to give young musicians their first debut on a recording. These are all things that big record companies would never touch because there is no money in it!
Gunther Schuller
So now, thirty years, forty years later, I mean, I could find a whole orchestra of a thousand to put these things together in New York City alone. In those days, if I could scrape up twenty musicians to do this it was something extraordinary.
Gunther Schuller
So it was exactly as Third Stream implies coming together in very profound, important deep ways, trying to make a new music out of this amalgam.
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That was more or less coincidental in the sense that my parents wanted me to come back to New York because that's the center of musical activity still to this day, more or less, and so I auditioned for the Metropolitan Opera.
Gunther Schuller
I would like to read some books: I don't have time; I would like to continue working on my autobiography.
Gunther Schuller
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