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Schuman, William

SCHUMAN, WILLIAM (1910 - 1992)

William Schuman (1910-92) had several successful simultaneous careers in music, as composer, educator and administrator. After teaching for ten years at Sarah Lawrence College, he became president of the Juilliard School of Music, and then the first president of the newly inaugurated Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York. Schuman was by then, according to the New York Times "probably the most powerful figure in the world of art music". Besides his full-time positions, he found the time to be director of the Koussevitzky Music Foundation, the Walter W. Naumburg Foundation, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Educational Television network and the Film Society of Lincoln Center.

Born in New York, he started to compose while still in high school, and was soon organizing jazz ensembles. His early interest in music was focused on popular music and jazz. He studied at Columbia University Teachers College, and took private composition lessons from Roy Harris at Juilliard. Harris was a great influence, both in Schuman’s development as a composer and in his career. It was Harris who first interested Serge Koussevitzky in his student’s works. In turn, Koussevitzky was one of the first conductors to perform his music. The violinist Samuel Dushkin commissioned Schuman’s Violin Concerto expecting to premiere it with Koussevitzky and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Koussevitzky, however, left the orchestra the year before the premiere (1950), which was played by Isaac Stern, and conducted by Koussevitzky’s successor in Boston, Charles Munch.

Schuman’s compositions include the 1939 American Festival Overture, (one of his earliest successes), a Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, the ballets Undertow and Night Journey, ten symphonies, four string quartets, choral works, film scores, Credendum (commissioned by the United States government) and A Free Song, which won the first Pulitzer Prize in Music.

Discography
Image	Title	Price	Release Date	Label
	SCHUMAN, W.: Symphonies Nos. 3 and 5 / Judith	$8.99	Dec 12, 2006	Naxos American Classics
	SCHUMAN: Symphonies Nos. 7 and 10	$8.99	Oct 18, 2005	Naxos American Classics
	SCHUMAN: Symphonies Nos. 4 and 9 / Circus Overture / Orchestra Song	$8.99	May 17, 2005	Naxos American Classics
	SCHUMAN: Symphony No. 4 / Prayer in Time of War / Judith	$12.99	Oct 1, 2003	First Edition
	SCHUMAN: Violin Concerto / New England Triptych	$8.99	May 1, 2001	Naxos American Classics
	COPLAND: Clarinet Concerto / GOULD: Spirituals / SCHUMAN: Symphony No. 5	$18.99	Sep 1, 2000	Chandos

Composer also appears in: (2)
Image	Title	Price	Release Date	Label
	Jamestown Concerto, American Music for Cello and Orchestra	$8.99	Aug 26, 2008	Naxos American Classics
	The Story of American Classical Music	$17.99	Jun 21, 2005	Naxos Educational

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