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"Scholar, composer, conductor, teacher, author, music publisher, indefatigable advocate – Gunther Schuller isn't merely a musician, he's a monopoly." This is how New York Magazine described the Pulitzer-Prize winner, who died in June 2015. In a tribute to one of the most important and influential musical figures of our time, Tom talks to the composer and conductor Oliver Knussen about his 45 year relationship with Schuller, (which started at Tanglewood in the 1970s), to Radio 3’s Geoffrey Smith on the merging of classical and jazz styles in Schuller’s work which led to him coining the term Third Stream, and to Mohammed Fairouz, on his legacy for a younger generation of American composers today. Plus there’s ´óÏó´«Ã½ archive of Schuller in conversation and performance.

Broadcast in June 2015.

Photo credit: Joel Smirnoff