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Gerald Shapiro (other)
Gerald Shapiro may refer to: * Gerald Shapiro (writer) (1950–2011), American writer * Gerald Shapiro (composer) Gerald M. Shapiro (born 1942 in Philadelphia) is an American composer of acoustic and electronic music. Shapiro studied first at the Eastman School of Music, where he received a Bachelor of Music degree with distinction in 1964. He then did grad ... (born 1942), American composer See also * Gary Shapiro (other) {{human name disambiguation, Shapiro, Gerald ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerald Shapiro (writer)
Gerald David Shapiro (August 23, 1950 – October 15, 2011) was an American writer who had published three prize-winning books and was Cather Professor of English at the University of Nebraska. He was also a reader for '' Prairie Schooner''. He lived in Lincoln, Nebraska with his wife, the writer Judith Slater. Education He received his B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of Kansas and M.F.A. from the MFA Program for Poets & Writers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Academic positions * University of Nebraska-Lincoln * Harris Center for Judaic Studies Awards Honor Award in Fiction from The Nebraska Center for the Book and the Ohio State University Prize in Short Fiction and the Pushcart Prize for Fiction and the Edward Lewis Wallant Award for Jewish Fiction. He has also been a finalist for the 2000 National Jewish Book Award for Fiction. Also won a Merit Award from the Nebraska Arts Council's Individual Artists Fellowships program. Works His stories ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerald Shapiro (composer)
Gerald M. Shapiro (born 1942 in Philadelphia) is an American composer of acoustic and electronic music. Shapiro studied first at the Eastman School of Music, where he received a Bachelor of Music degree with distinction in 1964. He then did graduate work at Mills College, where he received an M.A. in 1967, the University of California, Davis, the San Francisco Tape Music Center, and in Paris at the Conservatoire Nationale de Musique and the École Normale de Musique de Paris, École Normale Supérieure de Musique. His principal composition teachers were Darius Milhaud, Morton Subotnick, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Olivier Messiaen, and Nadia Boulanger. Since 1967 he has taught at Brown University, where he is currently Professor of Music. His compositions have been performed throughout the United States and Europe, and are recorded on the Naxos and Neuma labels. Compositions (selective list) * ''Antiphonies I'', for piano and tape (1965) * ''Winter Birch'', for interactive audience pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |