William Howard Schuman was an American composer and arts administrator.
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William Howard Schuman was an American composer and arts administrator.
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William Schuman was born into a Jewish family in Manhattan, New York City, son of Samuel and Rachel William Schuman.
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William Schuman was named after the 27th U S president, William Howard Taft, though his family preferred to call him Bill.
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William Schuman played the violin and banjo as a child, but his overwhelming passion was baseball.
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William Schuman wrote popular songs with E B Marks Jr, a friend he had met long before at summer camp.
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Around that time, William Schuman met lyricist Frank Loesser and wrote some forty songs with him.
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William Schuman dropped out of school and quit his part-time job to study music at the Malkin Conservatory with Max Persin and Charles Haubiel.
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William Schuman won the inaugural Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1943 for his Cantata No 2.
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William Schuman left in 1961 to succeed John D Rockefeller III as president of Lincoln Center, a position he held until 1969.
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In 1971, William Schuman was awarded The Edward MacDowell Medal by The MacDowell Colony for outstanding contributions to American culture.
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William Schuman won a special Pulitzer Prize in 1985 citing "more than half a century of contribution to American music as composer and educational leader" and he received the National Medal of Arts in 1987.
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William Schuman died at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City at age 81, following hip surgery.
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William Schuman arranged Charles Ives' organ piece Variations on "America" for orchestra in 1963, in which version it is better known.
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