Guggenheim / Metuchen / Natick / Philadelphia / Lynn / Pittsburgh / Cleveland / Vienna / Garden City / Boston / Jacksonville / Rome / Los Angeles / London / Chicago / /
Company
Boston Herald / Modern Music / New York Times / SoundByte Productions Inc. / Macmillan / Shapero / Chamber Music / New York City Ballet Company / The Aaron Copland Fund / Bob Defrin Design Inc. / AMERICAN MUSIC INC. / Greenwood Press / ASCAP/Chamber Music / Francis Goelet Charitable Lead Trust / R.A.A.M. INC. / /
Continent
America / Europe / Asia / North America / /
Country
Switzerland / France / Canada / United Kingdom / Germany / Italy / Armenia / Russia / United States / / /
EntertainmentAwardEvent
the Tanglewood / the Rome Prize / Tanglewood / Music America Awards / /
Event
Employment Change / /
Facility
Penn Plaza / Neoclassic camp / Electronic Music Studio / Harvard University / Boston University / Gershwin Memorial / Brandeis University / New England Conservatory / / /
Boston Symphony Orchestra / Double / Los Angeles Philharmonic / Schubert / Lydian String Quartet / /
NaturalFeature
On Green Mountain / /
Organization
New England Conservatory / Malkin Conservatory / String Trio / Eighth Symphony / Beethoven’s Eighth Symphony / Koussevitsky Foundation / Ford Foundation / Louisville Symphony Orchestra / Boston Symphony Orchestra / Musicians of the World / Classical Orchestra / United Nations Orchestra / Boston University / Brandeis University / Harvard University / Lydian String Quartet / String Quintet / Tanglewood Music Center / Harold Shapero’s Symphony / Boston Symphony / American Academy in Rome / Longy School of Music / String Quartet / Music Department / Double Bass and Chamber Orchestra / Houston Symphony Orchestra / Aaron Copland Fund for Music / /
Person
Marilyn Shapiro / Harold Shapero / Eleanor Kerr / Paul M. Tai / Mojisola Oké / Aaron Copland / Manfred Malkin / Rodney Lister / Alban Berg / Georg Solti / Wilfred Mellers / Paul Marotta / Irving Fine / André Previn / Allen Anderson / John Lee Carroll / Elliott Carter / Lisa Kahlden / Robert Marx / Leo Ornstein / Virginia Hayward / Rhonda Rider / Anton Webern / David Hamilton / Ingolf Dahl / Nadia Boulanger / Edwin Barker / Frank Cunningham / Paul Hindemith / Louise Talma / Herman E. Krawitz / Brad Michel / Arthur Berger / James Yannatos / Lukas Foss / Don Roberts / Milton Babbitt / Peter Mercurio / David Cleary Composer / David Cleary / Carolyn Davies (Serenade) / Elizabeth Ostrow / Lee Hyla / Alexei Haieff / Michael Boriskin / Patrick Smith / Leonard Bernstein / George Balanchine / Walter Piston / Henry Portnoi / Yehudi Wyner / Alfred A. Knopf / Dan Parratt / Richard Stephan / Cynthia Parker / Peter Child / Arthur Moorhead / Gunther Schuller / Hans Hoffman / Frank Cunningham Editing / Stanley Sadie / Frank Stanton / David Kopp / Richard Aspinwall / William Schuman / Dirk Sobotka / Rita Hauser / Charles Fussell / Nicolas Slonimsky / Robert Craft / Arnold Schoenberg / Martin Boykan / Daniel Stepner / Mary Ruth Ray / Larry Polansky / Igor Stravinsky / Judith Eissenberg / Angelo LaMariana / Thomas Oboe Lee / Emanuel Gerard / / /
Position
jazz pianist / composer / solo and ensemble player / President / department chair / Director of Information Technology / pianist / Producer / Engineer / Composer /critic / Director of Artists and Repertory / conductor / Managing Director / Major / Double bassist / L. Ranger / trumpet / Bookkeeper / principal bassist / teacher / Chairman / writer / /
ProvinceOrState
Massachusetts / /
PublishedMedium
Modern Music / the Boston Herald / /
Region
New England / /
Technology
Information Technology / Gershwin / computer notation technology / /
Harold Shapero was born on April 29, 1920, in Lynn, Massachusetts. Raised there and in Newton, another Boston-area suburb, he was already playing the piano at age seven. By the time he reached college, he had achieved a good bit more musically than most teenagers. This included theory and composition lessons with Nicolas Slonimsky and Ernst K enek,