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Epitaph is a composition by jazz musician Charles Mingus. It is 4,235 measures long, takes more than two hours to perform, and was only completely discovered during the cataloguing process after his death.
Jun 7, 1991 · Epitaph (Charles Mingus), conducted by Gunther Schuller in 1991, San Francisco. by. San Francisco Jazz Festival. Publication date. 1991-06-07. Topics. californiarevealed, Jazz festivals--California, Jazz in the City Festival, San Francisco (Calif.), 1991-06-07, Jazz, Live sound recordings. Contributor.
Listen to a conversation with Gunther Schuller about Charles Mingus’s monumental “Epitaph,” 25 years after its world premiere. Recorded in front of a live audience at the Cornelia Street Cafe on January 15, 2014.
Jul 24, 2008 · Gunther Schuller, conductor Charles Mingus' abortive attempt to perform "Epitaph" ended in disaster, and led him to abandon the work. But scholars have reconstructed the piece after his...
Schuller was editor-in-chief of Jazz Masterworks Editions, and co-director of the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra in Washington, D.C. Another effort of preservation was his editing and posthumous premiering at Lincoln Center in 1989 of Charles Mingus's immense final work, Epitaph, subsequently released on Columbia/Sony Records.
- Library of Congress
- Gunther Schuller papers, 1943-2015
The second life was the 1989 premiere at Lincoln Center, conducted by Gunther Schuller, of what was then considered the complete score. This version of Epitaph traveled the world and The New York Times called it the "jazz event of the decade."
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Mar 14, 2023 · Gunther Schuller, who conducted the only complete performances of Epitaph—at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in 1989 and in New York, Chicago, Cleveland, and Los Angeles in 2007—described the work as “among the most important, prophetic, creative statements in the history of Jazz."
