I heard great music in my mother's womb and my father was in the New York Philharmonic so I was taken to concerts and of course I heard him practice.
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As rich as Cincinnati was in live music, New York was even more.Gunther Schuller
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 don't hate work, composing is not work for me, it's my pleasure; it's my life. So why should I stop? If something is pleasurable and exciting and rewarding, why should one stop?
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, I think I never slept because during the day I was rehearsing with the Cincinnati Symphony and at night I was listening to jazz.
Gunther Schuller
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