Composer/conductor/educator/horn player Gunther Schuller is turning 75 and writing a memoir of his life. But he’s only at his 19th year and already he’s written 250 pages. “I spent about four pages just describing what was available on the radio in the way of classical music. I am self-taught in everything except the French horn, and the radio is one of the ways how I learned so much music. I had to do some research because I had forgotten how much there really was, and I was flabbergasted; it helps explain things about me and others like me. There was no excuse for anybody’s being culturally illiterate, as most Americans are today.” – Boston Globe