Musings gathers together the essays, speeches, liner notes, dictionary entries, and magazine articles of one of the most important musical figures of the century. The writings in this collection cover such artists as James Rees Europe, Paul Whiteman, Duke Ellington, Cecil Taylor, Ornette Coleman, Sonny Rollins, Lee Konitz, Sarah Vaughan and Gil Evans; and such topics as the "Third Stream," the art of conducting, the future of opera, and the need for broadening the audience for quality music. A marvelous introduction to the man and his extraordinary range of musical experience, taste and erudition, Musings is essential reading for anyone interested in twentieth-century music.

GUNTHER SCHULLER is a leading contemporary American composer and conductor, was associated with the Berkshire Music Center at Tanglewood for over twenty years, mostly as its Artistic Director, and was President of the New England Conservatory of Music from 1967 to 1977. He is the author of several books on music, including Horn Technique, The Complete Conductor, Early Jazz and The Swing Era. In 1991, he received a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship.

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