- Paul Fromm
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Paul Fromm (activist) "Paul Fromm (1906-July 4, 1987) was a Jewish
Chicago wine merchant and performing arts patron through theFromm Music Foundation . [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,865368,00.html] The "Organum for Paul Fromm" was composed byJohn Harbison in his honor. [http://www.schirmer.com/default.aspx?TabId=2420&State_2874=2&workId_2874=24229]Born in Kitzingen, Germany to a prominent family of vintners, Fromm was an early supporter of contemporary classical music in that country after he was exposed to
Stravinsky 's "Rite of Spring" in the early 1920s. He attended concerts at theDonaueschingen Festival further deepening his appreciation of the genre. [http://fas-www.harvard.edu/~musicdpt/fromm.html#history] A Jew, he was forced to fleeNazi Germany in 1938 and immigrated to theUnited States where he settled in Chicago where he co-founded a wine importing firm, the Geeting and Fromm Corporation in 1939 and then founded the Great Lakes Wine Company in 1943. [http://fas-www.harvard.edu/~musicdpt/fromm.html#history]By 1952, his business was established enough for him to focus to establish the Fromm Music Foundation [http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/295.html] which financially supporting young composers through grants awarded on the recommendation of its staff of musicians and experts.
Fromm's proteges include
Benjamin Lees ,Ben Weber andElvin Epstein . [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,865368,00.html]An annual "Paul Fromm Concert" of contemporary classical music is performed annually at the University of Chicago in his memory. [http://magazine.uchicago.edu/9502/Feb95Events.html] The Paul Fromm Award is given annually by the
Tanglewood Music Center in his name.Paul Fromm was married to
University of Chicago psychology professor and writerErika Fromm whom he met in Germany in 1936 and married in 1938 shortly before emigrating to the United States. [http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/030612/fromm.shtml]ee also
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20th century classical music ources
* [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,865368,00.html Rescuer of Necktie Salesmen, Time Magazine, July 23, 1956]
External links
* [http://fas-www.harvard.edu/~musicdpt/fromm.html Fromm Music Foundation]
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