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Born September 6, 1938 (age 88) • New Rochelle • New York
Awards And Honors Grammy Award (2007) • Grawemeyer Award (1990)
Notable Works “Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman” • “Made in America” • “Silver Ladders”
Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky
Russian composer
John Adams
John Adams
American composer and conductor
Aaron Copland
Aaron Copland
American composer
Marvin Hamlisch seated at a grand piano, wearing glasses and a dark shirt, with orchestral instruments and music stands visible in the background.
Marvin Hamlisch
American composer, pianist, and conductor
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Elliott Carter
American composer
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Steve Reich
American composer
Schuller, Gunther
Gunther Schuller
American composer
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Samuel Barber
American composer
André Previn.
André Previn
American composer and musician
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Morton Gould
American musician and composer
Pierre Boulez
Pierre Boulez
French composer and conductor
Osvaldo Golijov
Osvaldo Golijov
Argentine composer
Olivier Messiaen.
Olivier Messiaen
French composer
Krzysztof Penderecki
Krzysztof Penderecki
Polish composer
Luciano Berio, 1970
Luciano Berio
Italian composer
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Witold Lutosławski
Polish composer
George Gershwin
George Gershwin
American composer
Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg in a suit, seated at a piano and holding a conductor's baton, appears to be conducting music in a wood-paneled room.
Arnold Schoenberg
American composer
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Harry Lawrence Freeman
American composer and conductor
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Zhou Long
Chinese American composer