Howard Shanet

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Howard Shanet (born November 9, 1918 in Brooklyn , † June 19, 2006 ) was an American conductor and composer .

Life

Shanet studied cello until 1939 and musicology at Columbia University in New York until 1941 . After a war mission in the Pacific, he studied composition with Bohuslav Martinů and Aaron Copland and conducting with Sergei Kussewizki and Fritz Stiedry . He became Leonard Bernstein's assistant with the New York City Symphony in the early 1950s . 1959/1960 he was program commentator of the New York Philharmonic for the New York Times .

He later became a guest conductor with the New York Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Tanglewood , the CBS Symphony and various orchestras in the Netherlands and Israel. Shanet composed his own modern works for orchestra and string quartet.

Shanet was since 1953 music professor at Columbia University and conductor of the university orchestra. From 1972 until his retirement in 1978 he was dean of the music faculty.

literature

  • "Learn to Read Music", 1956
  • "Philharmonic: A History of New York's Orchestra," 1975.
personal data
SURNAME Shanet, Howard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American conductor, composer
DATE OF BIRTH November 9, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn
DATE OF DEATH June 19, 2006