North Bethesda's Strathmore opened in 1976, and is now a home for numerous programs, including the largest of its music venues, the Music Center at Strathmore ; the Strathmore has hosted well-known musicians and composers like the cellist Steven Honigberg, pianist Christopher Taylor, jazz singers Nnenna Freelon and Luciana Souza and composers Virgil Thomson and Gunther Schuller, as well as DC-area cult acts like the founder of Go-go, Chuck Brown, and the reunited punk band The Slickee Boys.

Robert H. Schuller on the inside front cover page: " Success Through A Positive Mental Attitude is one of the ten books that has most impacted my faith and my philosophy ... no person's education is complete without the concepts articulated in it so wisely and so well.

Schuller has written over 160 original compositions.

Since 1993, Schuller has served as Artistic Director for the Northwest Bach Festival in Spokane, Washington.

Schuller has been the recipient of many awards, including the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for his composition written for the Louisville Orchestra Of Reminiscences and Reflections, the MacArthur Foundation " genius " award ( 1991 ), the William Schuman Award ( 1988 ), given by Columbia University for " lifetime achievement in American music composition ", and ten honorary degrees.

He has been active in Free Jazz circles, recording with Carla Bley, Don Cherry, Lee Konitz, John McLaughlin, Hōzan Yamamoto, Dave Holland, Gunther Schuller, the Mingus Epitaph Orchestra, Sam Rivers, Pharoah Sanders, Globe Unity Orchestra and many others.

Since its construction the building has been the principal place of worship for Crystal Cathedral Ministries, a congregation of the Reformed Church in America founded in 1955 by Robert H. Schuller.

Reflecting their commitment to expanding the chamber orchestra repertoire, Orpheus has premiered works by Elliott Carter, Jacob Druckman, Mario Davidovsky, Michael Gandolfi, William Bolcom, Osvaldo Golijov, Fred Lerdahl, Gunther Schuller, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, Susan Botti, David Rakowski, Bruce Adolphe, Peter Lieberson, Elizabeth Brown and Han Yong.

The MSO has presented more than 100 world and American premieres of works by composers such as Philip Glass, Daron Hagen, Daniel Schnyder, Roberto Sierra, Gunther Schuller, William Schuman, Lukas Foss, Roy Harris, Gian Carlo Menotti, Richard Rodgers, Ottorino Respighi, Jean Sibelius, Erich Korngold and others.

Schuller has four grown children and one granddaughter and one grandson.

Battisti has been responsible for commissioning and premiering over 50 works for wind ensemble by distinguished American and foreign composers including Warren Benson, Leslie Bassett, Robert Ceely, John Harbison, Robin Holloway, Witold Lutosławski, William Thomas McKinley, Vincent Persichetti, Michael Colgrass, Daniel Pinkham, Gunther Schuller, Robert Selig, Ivan Tcheripnin, Sir Michael Tippett, William Kraft, Robert Ward and Alec Wilder.

Finally, with the release of the motion picture The Sting in 1973, which had a Marvin Hamlisch soundtrack of Joplin tunes originally edited by Gunther Schuller, ragtime was brought to a wide audience.

He became an active contributor to the Third Stream movement in jazz music, ( which included such other notable musicians as Gunther Schuller and John Lewis ), and wrote a number of large-scale works which incorporated elements of both classical and jazz music.

As the Crystal Cathedral ’ s founding pastor, Schuller was seen and heard internationally on Sundays on the world ’ s most widely watched hour-long church service, the Hour of Power, 1500 of which were recorded.

Beginning in the late 1990s, the ministry struggled financially after it borrowed money to build a visitors ' center and produce a play, Creation, which was produced by Carol Schuller Milner, one of Schuller's daughters.

In June 2011, TBN refused to rebroadcast an episode of Jack Van Impe's weekly television program, in which the evangelist criticized pastors Rick Warren and Robert Schuller for participating in interfaith conferences alongside Muslim leaders and accused them of promoting " Chrislam ".

In 1955 Schuller and jazz pianist John Lewis founded the Modern Jazz Society, which gave its first concert in Town Hall, New York, that same year and later became known as the Jazz and Classical Music Society.

Pieces which are cited as featuring interpolation, among other techniques, are Music for Brass Quintet by Gunther Schuller and Threnody: To the Victims of Hiroshima by Krzysztof Penderecki, both ( 1960 – 61 ).

In 1970, he worked with conductor Günther Schuller in the U. S., and returned for another period of study in Germany, during which he produced several arrangements of Brazilian popular music and composed more than 100 scores for German television movies.

In 1973, Blake became the first Chair of the Third Stream Department ( now known as the Contemporary Improvisation Department ), which he co-founded with Schuller at the school.

After graduating from the Royal College of Music, he studied with Schuller at Tanglewood ; his fondness for American culture is occasionally portrayed in works such as Concerto in Moto Perpetuo ( 1983 ), which contains echoes of American minimalism, and the be-bop inspired For Miles ( 1994 ).

From 1995 to 2000, Schuller also hosted a one-hour live coast to coast radio show, which gained popularity.

Jazz critics Gunther Schuller ( 1991 ) and Gary Giddins ( 2004 ) have separately defended the Miller orchestra for whatever deficiencies earlier critics have found.

" Schuller, notes, " Miller sound was nevertheless very special and able to penetrate our collective awareness that few other sounds have ..." He compares it partially to " Japanese Gagaku Hindu music " in its purity.

" However finally Schuller notes: " How much further musical and financial ambitions might have carried him must forever remain conjectural.

These services have featured such celebrated preachers as Billy Graham, Norman Vincent Peale, Robert H. Schuller, Billy Sunday, Ralph W. Sockman, David H. C. Read, Tony Campolo, James A. Forbes, D. James Kennedy, Charles Stanley, William Jennings Bryan, Booker T. Washington, and Rodney " Gipsy " Smith.

Schuller's son, Robert A. Schuller, and eldest daughter, Sheila Schuller Coleman, have both been senior pastors of Crystal Cathedral.

Sheila Schuller Coleman said that " Dad will continue to provide leadership for this ministry through me for as long as possible " and " I have and will continue to defer to his wisdom and honor him for his unprecedented accomplishments.

Some modern composers such as Gunther Schuller, Donald Erb, Michael Tilson Thomas, Kalevi Aho, and Daniel Dorff have written concertos for this instrument.

The station does air some programming from FamilyNet, though since the network's 2009 purchase by a company owned by televangelist Robert A. Schuller, it seems to have refused any new programming from the network ; FamilyNet shows and films airing on WVCY show the network's pre-2008 logo, suggesting they were recorded before then and retained in the station's tape archive for later use.

Oliver Knussen, Don Banks, Gunther Schuller, Robin Holloway, and Thea Musgrave have written concertos ; Richard Rodney Bennett wrote " Acteon " for horn and large orchestra.

Subsequent performances have been produced using orchestrations created by a variety of composers, including Thomas J. Anderson, Gunther Schuller, and most recently, Rick Benjamin.

Schuller stated that " different ideas as to the direction and the vision for this ministry " with his son " made it necessary ... to part ways in the Hour of Power television ministry ".

Schuller envisioned a unique facility with walls made of glass and commissioned architect Philip Johnson.

In the words of Gunther Schuller, Reese "... had stormed the bastion of the white establishment and made many members of New York's cultural elite aware of Negro music for the first time.

Among these were John Cage, Alan Hovhaness, Henry Cowell, Ernst Krenek, Lou Harrison, and Gunther Schuller. Cage dedicated his Sonatas and Interludes to her and she made the first recording of that piece.

In a prepared statement, founder Robert H. Schuller stated that " different ideas as to the direction and the vision for this ministry " with his son " made it necessary ... to part ways in the Hour of Power television ministry ".

In 1973 The New England Ragtime Ensemble ( then a student group called The New England Conservatory Ragtime Ensemble ), recorded " The Red Back Book ", a compilation of some of Scott Joplin's rags in period orchestrations edited by conservatory president Gunther Schuller.

# Gunther Schuller, president of the New England Conservatory of Music, led a student ensemble in a performance of period orchestrations of Joplin's music.

** Gunther Schuller ( conductor ) & the New England Conservatory Ragtime Ensemble for Joplin: The Red Back Book

* Imbrie: Quartet No. 4 ; Schuller: Quartet No. 2 ( 1990 ) New World

In addition to Carter and Bernstein, in the mid-20th century, New York produced the film composer Bernard Herrmann, Gunther Schuller and serialist Leon Kirchner.

** Gunther Schuller ( conductor ) & the New England Conservatory Ragtime Ensemble ( later The New England Ragtime Ensemble ) for Joplin: The Red Back Book

In the 1960s and 1970s, Schuller was president of New England Conservatory, where he founded The New England Ragtime Ensemble.

* Gunther Schuller ( conductor ) & the New England Conservatory Ragtime Ensemble for Joplin: The Red Back Book ( 1974 )

Little else was heard from him until he was hired, at the behest of Schuller, to teach at the New England Conservatory of Music in 1970.

They later divorced, and he married Catherine Schuller on October 12, 1992 in New York after a year's courtship.

Russell returned to America in 1969, when Gunther Schuller assumed the presidency of the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston and appointed Russell to teach the Lydian Concept in the newly created jazz studies department, a position he held for many years.

His choice of music school was fortuitous as the New England Conservatory of Music had as its President in the 1970s the composer / historian, Gunther Schuller.

A year after Schuller became president of Boston ’ s New England Conservatory in 1967, Blake joined his mentor and many one-time teachers and inspirations, including George Russell, as a faculty member at NEC, the first American conservatory to offer a jazz degree.