The horn player, teacher and composer Gunther Schuller was the leading proponent of the "Third Stream" movement which fuses jazz and classical music. He wrote more than 200 pieces, including solo and orchestral works, chamber music, opera and jazz. His orchestral piece Of Reminiscences and Reflections, dedicated to his wife Marjorie Black, won the 1994 Pulitzer Prize. He was born in 1925 in New York;...
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