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Gunther Schuller Quotes: I was playing in the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra as principal horn. I was there for some 15 years - one of the most exciting and great musical periods in my life.
         

I was playing in the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra as principal horn. I was there for some 15 years - one of the most exciting and great musical periods in my life.


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My primary calling, I always knew since the age of 11, was as a composer, and so that had to take priority.



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