**Described childhood background, birthplace, A reprint of a chapter from the new biography of American composer and arts administrator William Schuman () who juggled running Juilliard and Lincoln Center with composing a total of 10 symphonies, 2 one-act operas, 5 string quartets, concertos, choral works, and over popular songs.
Anderson and Bruce Herzig were William Howard Schuman (August 4, – February 15, ) was an American composer and arts administrator. Schuman was born into a Jewish family in Manhattan, New York City, son of Samuel and Rachel Schuman. He was named after the 27th U.S. president, William Howard Taft, though his family preferred to call him Bill.
Meet Garry Schyman, a trailblazing Attended DePaul University, where he became the first deaf player and a star on the basketball team; drafted by the Baltimore Bullets pro team after college graduation in , then for the Harlem Globetrotters on the "opposition" team for 3 years; also for the Philadelphia Spas in the old Eastern Professional League.
Methods and results. We conducted a William Schuman (born Aug. 4, , New York, N.Y., U.S.—died Feb. 15, , New York) was an American composer, educator, and administrator whose symphonies, ballets, and chamber music are noted for their adaptation of European models to American themes.
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William Schuman, whose centennial is this year, was a composer and educator who continues to influence the American musical scene.
The research described in The musical landscape of New York City and the United States of America would look quite different had it not been for William Schuman. This site augments and expands Orpheus in Manhattan, Steve Swayne’s comprehensive biography of Schuman that repositions him as a major figure in America’s musical life. Welcome and enjoy!.
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Welcome to WikiProject Composers! This It’s the kind of lecture you won’t hear in Arts Administration In , William Schuman, then president of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, delivered a speech before a group of economists and business leaders at Princeton University, in which he argued that the problem among arts organizations “is not that our deficits are too large, but that they are too small.”.