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.
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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.Gunther Schuller
But somehow, I felt no inclination to be interested in it in any amateur way, let alone professional, until suddenly I became interested. And the first thing I did was to compose: not play an instrument, but to compose.
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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.
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So this anchoring in some way, in some important way in the past without repeating the past, but on the basis of the past building something new: that is what is important.
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Because I have sixty years of being a professional composer, conductor, musician, whatever, and you develop a lot of friendships and you get involved with a lot of sort of long-term commitments and obligations.
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