MIT TRIBUTE CONCERT ATTESTS TO GUNTHER SCHULLER''S VERSATILITY
By Matthew Guerrieri
CAMBRIDGE — MIT’s celebration of Gunther Schuller on Sunday night, culminating a day and month of area concerts commemorating the composer, conductor, performer, educator, and advocate who died in June, came complete with relics. A tabletop shrine in the Kresge Auditorium lobby displayed Schuller’s tools and talismans: scores, recordings, awards, a flamboyant sport coat. Onstage was a golden idol: Schuller’s own French horn. The concert itself, however, organized by MIT conductor (and Schuller student) Frederick Harris, eulogized Schuller in more provocatively indirect ways.
