Festival, friends mourn maestro
<p>Gunther Schuller and Bobbie Huguenin get their photo taken at the 1992 Festival at Sandpoint.</p>
SANDPOINT — Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, musician, conductor, writer, and former Festival at Sandpoint artistic director Gunther Schuller died in Boston Sunday from undisclosed medical issues. He was 89.
Schuller directed the Festival at Sandpoint between 1985 and 1998, and launched the festival’s Schweitzer Institute of Learning.
Schuller arrived at the festival as artistic director during its third year, when it was mainly a fledgling classical music event. At his hands, the festival took off and morphed into a multi-genre event.
“He really took it to the next step,” according to Dyno Wahl, executive director of the Festival at Sandpoint.
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