Howard Shanet
Howard Shanet (9 November 191819 June 2006) was a U.S. conductor and composer. He was also a music professor at Columbia University, and the chairman of its music department from 1972–1978.
Howard Shanet
- Born
- 9 November 1918
- Birthplace
- Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
- Died
- 19 June 2006
- Place of death
- Manhattan, New York, U.S.
- Spouse
- Bernice Grafstein
- Education
- Columbia University (B.A., M.A.)
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- composer · conductor · university teacher
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• Born — 9 November 1918 • Birthplace — Brooklyn, New York, U.S. • Died — 19 June 2006 • Place of death — Manhattan, New York, U.S. • Spouse — Bernice Grafstein • Workplaces — * Columbia University • Discipline — Composition • Education — Columbia University (B.A., M.A.)
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Howard Shanet (9 November 1918 – 19 June 2006) was a conductor and composer.
Biography
Biography
Howard Shanet was born on 9 November 1918 in Brooklyn, New York, and started his musical career as a cellist, gaining a Bachelor's degree from Columbia in 1939 and a Master's in Musicology in 1941. After military service in World War II, he studied musical composition with Bohuslav Martinů and Aaron Copland and conducting with Serge Koussevitzky and Fritz Stiedry. During the early 1950s, he was conducting assistant to Leonard Bernstein at the New York Philharmonic. In 1953, he joined Columbia's faculty as Professor of Music, later becoming chairman of its music department from 1972–1978. In later years, he was appointed a professor emeritus. As a visiting conductor, he appeared with several major U.S. orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. He composed music for orchestra, string quartet, and band. He also conducted performances of operas at Columbia, including the world premiere of Carlos Chávez's The Visitors. He was the husband of neurophysiologist Bernice Grafstein Shanet, and the father of film and commercial director Laurence Shanet. Shanet died in Manhattan on June 19, 2006, at age 87.
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Howard Shanet was born in Brooklyn, New York, United States, according to the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek and the Bibliothèque nationale de France. The death is recorded by the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek.
Publications
In 1956, Shanet wrote the music textbook Learn to Read Music. He wrote Philharmonic: A History of New York's Orchestra in 1975 and wrote an introduction and historical notes to a compilation of early works on the history of the orchestra called Early Histories of the New York Philharmonic.
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• Finding aid to the Howard Shanet papers at Columbia University. Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
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- 1.NYT 2006.
- 2.Columbia College (Columbia University). Office of Alumni Affairs and Development. Columbia College today. New York, N.Y. : Columbia College, Office of Alumni Affairs and Development. 1959.
- 3.Columbia College Today. www.college.columbia.edu.
- 4.Howard Taubman. Opera: First by Chavez. The New York Times. May 10, 1957.
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