CAS/MillerComm Lecture: "Gunther Schuller: A Life in Music" by Gunther Schuller

• Event Date: Wednesday, September 18, 2013
• Time: 7:30 pm–9:00 pm (CDT)
• Location: Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory St., Urbana, IL
• Cost: Free Admission

• Talk

The CAS/MillerComm public events series brings to campus people who offer unique cross-disciplinary contributions to the intellectual and cultural life of the university.

"Gunther Schuller: A Life in Music"
Gunther Schuller
George A. Miller Visiting Artist and musical legend

Gunther Schuller sits down with University of Illinois Horn Professor Bernhard Scully for a far ranging conversation covering jazz, classical music, musicology, the history of music in America from 1950 to the present, conducting, composition, music administration, music publishing and the recording industry.

Gunther Schuller's multifaceted career has spanned an amazing seven decades. A Grammy Award winning musical icon, MacArthur Fellow and Pulitzer Prize winning composer, Schuller is the President and founder of GM Recordings, President and founder of Gunmar Publishing Company, world-renowned conductor, former President of the New England Conservatory, acclaimed music historian, prolific author and jazz musician.

This Center for Advanced Study event is hosted by the School of Music in conjunction with Campus Research Board, College of Fine and Applied Arts, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, and Spurlock Museum.