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Seymour Shifrin
Classical
Seymour Shifrin (1926-1979) was born in New York City and educated at the High School of Music and Art and at Columbia University; his most influential teachers were William Schuman, Otto Luening and Darius Milhaud. He taught for many years at the University of California at Berkeley and was Professor of Music at Brandeis University. His commissions include those from the Koussevitsky Foundation, the League of Composers—ISCM, the Fine Arts Foundation, the Fromm Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. He received the Bearns Prize, the Copley Award, the Horblit Award and Fulbright and Guggenheim Fellowships. His Satires of Circumstance, issued by Nonesuch Records, received the Koussevitsky International Recording Award in 1970. Two years later, Shifrin's Three Pieces for Orchestra (1958), a Naumburg Award- winning composition, again received the Koussevitsky as CRI SD 275. Shifrin's work may also be heard on CRI recordings: Serenade for Five Instruments (1955) on CRI SD 123; String Quartet No. 4 on CRI SD 358; Chronicles (1970), Three Songs (1952) and Five Songs (1979) on CRI SD 504.
Discography
| Title | Artist | Year | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contemporary American Piano Trios | Andrew Imbrie • Seymour Shifrin • John Harbison • Mel Powell, The Francesco Trio | 1993 | Album |
| A Fifteenth Anniversary Album | Speculum Musicae - Peter Lieberson / Charles Wuorinen / Seymour Shifrin | 1985 | Album |
| Chronicles / Three Songs / Five Songs | Seymour Shifrin | 1984 | Album |
| Cantata To The Text Of Sophoclean Choruses | Seymour Shifrin - The Cantata Singers, David Hoose With The Harvard's Choir And The Lydian String Quartet | 1984 | Album |
| Sonata / Responses / Three Compositions For Piano / Sonata | Leon Kirchner / Seymour Shifrin / Milton Babbitt / Béla Bartók, Robert Taub | 1981 | Album |
| New American Music For Chamber Ensemble | John Heiss / Seymour Shifrin / Paul Lansky - The Boston Musica Viva, D'Anna Fortunato, Richard Pittman | 1978 | Album |
| Americana / The Odes Of Shang / To Music | Randall Thompson / Seymour Shifrin / Elliott Carter - The University Of Michigan Chamber Choir, The University Of Michigan Symphony Orchestra, Thomas Hilbish | 1977 | Album |
| Cantus Contra Cantum I / Quartet No. 2 / Quartet No. 4 | Jacques-Louis Monod / Ben Weber / Seymour Shifrin | 1976 | Album |
| Rituals / String Quartet No. 6 / Three Pieces For Orchestra | Ralph Shapey / Seymour Shifrin | 1972 | Album |
| Psalms • Behold! I Build An House / Serenade For Five Instruments | Lukas Foss / Seymour Shifrin | 1958 | Album |
| Spectrum: New American Music, Volume II | Stefan Wolpe / George Rochberg / Seymour Shifrin - Contemporary Chamber Ensemble, Arthur Weisberg, Jan DeGaetani | Album |
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