11 Facts About Frank Glazer

Frank Glazer was an American pianist, composer, and teacher of music.

Frank Glazer was educated in Milwaukee Public Schools, and graduated the city's North Division High School in 1932.

Strelsin urged Frank Glazer to make his New York debut, telling him, "If you don't start by the time you're 21, forget it".

Frank Glazer made his debut at Town Hall in New York City on October 20,1936, with a program of Bach, Brahms, Schubert and Chopin.

Frank Glazer played this program again in 2006, to celebrate his seventieth anniversary of public performance.

In 1939 Frank Glazer performed with the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Sergei Koussevitzky.

Frank Glazer served in the United States Army as an interpreter from 1943 to 1945 in Germany and France.

From 1965 until 1980 Frank Glazer taught at the Eastman School of Music; among his students Myriam Avalos and Martin Amlin.

In 1980 Frank Glazer left Eastman and became artist in residence at Bates College in Maine.

Frank Glazer has been called "the greatest interpreter of the piano music of Erik Satie".

Frank Glazer's brother David was a clarinetist who performed with the New York Woodwind Quintet for more than 35 years.