Seymour Shifrin
Seymour Shifrin was an American composer. He was described by Time Magazine as "one of the most significant composers of his generation."
Shifrin's Satires of Circumstance received the Koussevitzky International Recording Award for 1970. He received the Naumburg Award, Columbia University's Bearns Prize, the Copley Award, the Horblit Prize, and two Guggenheim Fellowships, in 1956 and 1959. A graduate of Columbia University, he was a member of the faculty at the University of California at Berkeley and at Brandeis University from 1966 until his death in 1979.
Shifrin studied with William Schuman, Otto Luening, and Darius Milhaud.
Orchestral Music:
- Music for Orchestra
- Chamber Symphony
- Three Pieces for Orchestra
- Chronicles for chorus, orchestra and soloists
Vocal and Choral Music
- Two Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke for voice and piano
- No Second Troy for voice and piano
- Odes of Shang for chorus, piano and percussion
- A Renaissance Garland for soprano, tenor, recorders, lute, viola da gambas, tuned percussion
- Five Last Songs for soprano and piano
Chamber Music:
Solo Music:
