Listening Through The Dictionary of Composers and Their Music
William Schuman (1910-1992)
Bio
William Howard Schuman was born in Manhattan. He wrote songs for an advertising agency as a young man and then enrolled in the Malkin Conservatory. He took composition lessons from Roy Harris and eventually earned a degree from Teachers College at Columbia University. He won the first-ever Pulitzer Prize for Music, the Edward MacDowell Medal, and the National Medal of Arts. He also served as the President of Juilliard and the President of the Lincoln Center.
Music
Symphony No. 3
Symphony No. 6
String Quartet No. 5
Symphony No. 8
Symphony No. 9
New England Triptych
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra
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