William Schuman
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American composer and arts administrator
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William Schuman's Degrees
- Bachelors Composition Columbia University
- Masters Musicology Columbia University
Why Is William Schuman Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, William Howard Schuman was an American composer and arts administrator. Life Schuman was born into a Jewish family in Manhattan, New York City, son of Samuel and Rachel Schuman. He was named after the 27th U.S. president, William Howard Taft, though his family preferred to call him Bill. Schuman played the violin and banjo as a child, but his overwhelming passion was baseball. He attended Temple Shaaray Tefila as a child. While still in high school, he formed a dance band, "Billy Schuman and his Alamo Society Orchestra", that played local weddings and bar mitzvahs in which Schuman played string bass.
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