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Seymour Shifrin
12+ albums
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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. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
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Satires of Circumstance: "What's There to Tell?"
92Satires of Circumstance: Waiting Both
73Cello Sonata: I. Allegro agitato
74Satires of Circumstance: The Convergence of the Twain
75Cello Sonata: II. Largo
66String Quartet No. 4: I. Lirico
67String Quartet No. 4: II. Comodo, Delicately, Leisurely
68Responses
69Cantata to the Text of Sophoclean Choruses: II. Ode
410Piano Trio
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Music of Seymour Shifrin
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Shifrin: Cantata to the Text of Sophoclean Choruses
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Hindemith: Cello Sonata / Armer: Recollections and Revel / Shifrin: Cello Sonata / Turok: Cello Sonata / Milhaud: Cello Sonata
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Spectrum: New American Music
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Beethoven / Haydn / Mozart / Brahms / Husa / Shifrin / Bartok / Hindemith / Martinon: String Quartets (Fine Arts Quartet) (1967-1973)
Cantata to the Text of Sophoclean Choruses
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Imbrie / Shifrin / Harbison / Powell: Piano Trios
Chronicles / Three Songs / Five Songs
Seymour Shifrin: Three Pieces for Orchestra; String Quartet No. 4; Serenade for Five, Seymour Shifrin: Three Pieces for Orchestra, String Quartet No. 4, Serenade for Five
Seymour Shifrin
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Shifrin: Pieces; Serenade
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Spectrum - New American Music - Volume 1