Alan Shulman
Alan Shulman ( born June 4, 1915 in Baltimore, † July 10, 2002 in Hudson / New York) was an American composer and cellist.
Shuman had since his childhood cello lessons and joined ten years old with his siblings Violet ( piano) and Sylvan Shulman (violin ) and piano trio. At the Peabody Conservatory, he took lessons with Bart Wirtz (cello) and Louis Cheslock (harmony ). When the family moved to Brooklyn in 1928, he became a member of the National Orchestral Association under the leadership of Leon Barzin and took lessons from Joseph Emonts (piano) and Winthrop Sargent (harmony ). From 1932 to 1937 he studied at the Juilliard School cello with Felix Salmond and composition with Bernard Wagenaar.
From 1937 to 1954 he was, with an interruption from 1942 to 1948, during which he, inter alia, served in the U.S. Navy, a member of the NBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Arturo Toscanini. He completed his training at this time with Emanuel Fire Man (1939 ) and Paul Hindemith (1942 ). As a chamber musician he played from 1935 to 1938 in Kreiner String Quartet and founded with his brother Sylvan the Stuyvesant String Quartet, with whom he performed in the 1940s and 1950s, especially works by contemporary composers (including Dmitri Shostakovich's Piano Quintet at Carnegie Hall ). He also wrote arrangements for Leo Reisman, Andre Kostalanetz, Arthur Fiedler and Wilfred Pelletier and was during his naval service time Nelson Riddle lessons in orchestration.
His first success as a composer had Shulman with the Theme and Variations for Viola and Orchestra, which was premiered by the NBC 1941 with soloist Emanuel Vardi. On board the work was inter alia later played by Yizhak Scots, Cathy Basrak, Joseph DePasquale and Robert Glazer. His Suite on American Folk Songs was premiered at Carnegie Hall in 1944 Eudice Shapiro and Vivian Rivkin. His brother Sylvan played in 1944 at the ABC, the premiere of his Pastorale and Dance, the aufführte 1947 Oscar Shumsky with the Baltimore Symphony.
For Benny Goodman, he composed Shulman 's Rendezvous, which was later recorded by Artie Shaw and Richard Stoltzman. His cello concerto was premiered in 1950 by Leonard Rose and the New York Philharmonic under Dimitri Mitropoulos. The world premiere of his Tallulah Bankhead dedicated Laurentian Overture was in 1952 under the direction of Guido Cantelli at Carnegie Hall. In addition, Shulman wrote in the 1950s song with the entertainer Steve Allen and wrote arrangements for Skitch Henderson, Raoul Poliakin and Felix Slatkin. In the 1960s and 1970s, he played numerous radio and recordings one, composed teaching materials, worked with artists such as 3 Faces of Glen Cove, Interstate 90, The Corn Shuckers and Mazatlan and wrote the arrangements for the debut album of singer-songwriter Cris Williamson.
From 1962 to 1969 he was a member of the Philharmonia Trio, from 1972 to 1982 by the Haydn Quartet. As a cello teacher Shulman et al had Sarah Lawrence College, the Juilliard School, the Johnson State College and the University of Maine. In 1987, he retired for health reasons. The Indiana University honored him in 1997 as a Chevalier du cellos.
Since 1946, Shulman was married to the pianist Sophie Pratt Bostelmann. His son Jay Shulman is a cellist, his son Marc Shulman guitarist and his daughter Laurie Shulman musicologist.
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- Capital.net - The Music of Alan Shulman
- Jazz House - Alan Shulan cellist,
- The Epoch Times - Alan Shulman - A Musical Phenomenon
- Paula Mary Krupiczewicz: "A Historical and Pedagogical Guide to Alan Shulman 's Theme and Variations (1940 ) for Viola and Piano with an Introduction to Variations ( 1984) for Viola, Harp, and Strings " ProQuest, 2007 ISBN 9780549459095
- Man
- Born in 1915
- Died in 2002
- American composer
- Classical cellist