Samuel Adler (composer)

Samuel Adler (composer)

Samuel Hans Adler (born March 4, 1928) is an American (German-born) composer and conductor.

Adler was born to a Jewish family in Mannheim, Germany, the son of Hugo Chaim Adler, a cantor, and Selma Adler. The family fled to the United States in 1939, where Hugo became the cantor of a synagogue in Worcester, Massachusetts. Sam followed his father into the music profession, earning degrees from Boston University and Harvard University (where he studied with Aaron Copland, Paul Hindemith, Paul Pisk, Walter Piston, and Randall Thompson and earned an M.A. in 1950. He studied conducting with Serge Koussevitzky at Tanglewood in 1949.

While serving in the United States Army (1950-1952), Adler founded and conducted the Seventh Army Symphony Orchestra. After his military service he was offered a conducting position, just vacated by Leonard Bernstein, on the faculty of Brandeis University but instead accepted a position as music director at Temple Emanu-El in Dallas, Texas, where the rabbi, Levi Olan, was a friend of Adler's family. Adler began his tenure in Dallas in 1953. At the Dallas temple, he formed a children's choir and an adult choir and made the latter a prominent part of the religious services, often performing contemporary Jewish choral works that might otherwise have been neglected. In 1966, he left Dallas to accept a position on the faculty of the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, where he taught composition and conducting until his retirement in 1994. He is the author of three books, "Choral Conducting" (Holt Reinhart and Winston 1971, second edition Schirmer Books 1985), "Sight Singing" (W.W. Norton 1979, 1997), and "The Study of Orchestration" (W.W. Norton 1982, 1989, 2001). He has also contributed numerous articles to major magazines and books published in the U.S. and abroad.

Adler has been awarded many prizes, including a just-awarded membership into the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, the Charles Ives Award, the Lillian Fairchild Award, etc. In 1983, he won the Deems Taylor Award for his book on orchestration; in 1984, he was appointed Honorary Professorial Fellow of the University College in Cardiff, Wales, and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for 1984-85. He has been a MacDowell Fellow for five years between 1954 and 1963. In 1986 he received the "Distinguished Alumni Award" from Boston University. The Music Teachers' National Association selected Adler as its "Composer of the Year 1986-87" for Quintalogues, which won the national competition. In the 1988-89 year, he has been designated "Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar." In 1989, he was awarded The Eastman School's Eisenhart Award for distinguished teaching, and he has been given the honor of Composer of the Year (1991) for the American Guild of Organists. During his second visit to Chile, Adler was elected to the Chilean Academy of Fine Arts (1993) "for his outstanding contributions to the world of music as composer, conductor, and author."

Adler's catalog includes over 400 published works in all media, including five operas, six symphonies, eight string quartets, at least eleven concerti (organ, piano, violin, viola or clarinet, cello, flute, guitar, saxophone quartet, woodwind quintet), many shorter orchestral works, works for wind ensemble and band, chamber music, a great deal of choral music and songs.

Since 1997 he has been a member of the composition faculty at the Juilliard School in New York City. Among his most successful students are composers Claude Baker, Louis Karchin, Michael Isaacson, Michael Karp, Gordon Stout, and Marc Mellits.

Other notable students

*Eric Ewazen
*Jay Greenberg
*Anthony Iannaccone
*James Kessler
*Carter Pann
*Kevin Puts
*Fisher Tull
*Dana Wilson
*Ye Xiaogang

References

*Cristol, Gerry. "A Light in the Prairie: Temple Emanu-El of Dallas 1872–1997". Fort Worth TX: TCU Press, 1998. ISBN 0-87565-184-4.
*Rolf, Marie. 2001. "Adler, Samuel." "The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians", ed. S. Sadie and J. Tyrrell. London: Macmillan.

External links

* [http://www.samadler.com Samuel Adler official site]


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