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Shapero is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Harold Shapero Harold Samuel Shapero (April 29, 1920 – May 17, 2013) was an American composer. Early years Shapero was born in Lynn, Massachusetts, on April 29, 1920. He and his family later moved to nearby Newton. He learned to play the piano as a chi ..., American composer * Rich Shapero, American venture capitalist and author See also * Shapeero * Shapiro * Schapiro {{surname, Shapero Jewish surnames Yiddish-language surnames ...
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Harold Shapero
Harold Samuel Shapero (April 29, 1920 – May 17, 2013) was an American composer. Early years Shapero was born in Lynn, Massachusetts, on April 29, 1920. He and his family later moved to nearby Newton. He learned to play the piano as a child, and for some years was a pianist in dance orchestras. With a friend, he founded the Hal Kenny Orchestra, a swing-era jazz band. He was more interested in classical music. In his teens some of his teachers included Nicolas Slonimsky (editor of Baker's ''Biographical Dictionary of Musicians'') in 1936 and Ernst Krenek in 1937. At 18 he entered Harvard, where he became friends with Leonard Bernstein and studied composition with Walter Piston in 1938. He also studied with Paul Hindemith at the Berkshire Music Center in 1940–41. Shapero was one of the first students at Tanglewood following its founding in the 1940s. When Igor Stravinsky was Norton Professor at Harvard in 1940, Shapero showed Stravinsky his ''Nine-Minute Overture''. S ...
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Rich Shapero
Rich Shapero (born 1948) is an American venture capitalist, self-published novelist, and musician. He is the founder of TooFar Media and the recipient of the 2015 Digital Book World Award for Best Adult Fiction App. Biography Shapero grew up in Los Angeles and attended UC Berkeley where he graduated in 1970 with a degree in English literature. Prior to founding TooFar Media, he was a partner at the venture capital firm Crosspoint and a board member at AristaSoft and New Edge Networks. He lives with his wife and daughters in the Santa Cruz Mountains. TooFar Media Rich Shapero founded TooFar Media in the mid 2000s to produce and distribute his multimedia stories and future works. He collaborates with a team of artists to create his projects, and TooFar Media publishes and distributes them across the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. TooFar Media App After the founding of TooFar Media, an app was released combining Shapero’s novels with the visual art and acco ...
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Shapeero
Tristram Shapeero is a British television director. He has directed many comedy series, initially in the United Kingdom and later in the United States. Early life Shapeero was born in Somerset and spent his childhood in Bath, where he attended St. Stephen's School and Beechen Cliff School. Career Shapeero started his career as a show runner on Channel 4's '' Norbert Smith: A Life'' and then worked on '' Whose Line Is It Anyway?''. He went to New York in 1991 to direct a few television comedy episodes; while in New York he met his future wife, Erica. After moving back to the UK, he continued to direct television comedy., directing British comedies that include all episodes of '' Pulling'', every other episode of '' Green Wing'', and Series 2 and 3 of '' Peep Show''. He also directed episodes of shows such as '' Brass Eye'', ''I'm Alan Partridge'', and '' Absolutely Fabulous''. He has been nominated for a BAFTA eight times – '' Gimme Gimme Gimme'' and '' Brass Eye Special'' ...
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Shapiro
Shapiro, and its variations such as Shapira, Schapiro, Schapira, Sapir, Sapira, Spira, Sapiro, Spiro (name)/Spyro (in Greek), Szapiro/ Szpiro (in Polish) and Chapiro (in French), is a Jewish Ashkenazi surname. Etymology The surname is derived from the medieval name of Speyer, Germany, compare Spire, the French name for that city. Other name variants attributed to Speyer include Sapiro, Spira, Spire, Spiro, Spero, Chapiro, Sprai, Szpir, Szpiro, Sapir and Spear. The Jewish community of Speyer was one of three leading cities central to the development of Ashkenazi culture, referred to as the , an acronym based on the names of the cities. The family name Speyer (based on the modern German name for the same city) has also become a well-known surname that was spread by Jews from Frankfurt to England, the United States and Canada in the late 19th and early 20th century. Some suggest that the surname derives from the Aramaic word () meaning "handsome". Notable people surnamed Sh ...
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Schapiro
Schapiro is a surname, and may refer to: * Alexander Schapiro, Russian anarchist * Miriam Schapiro, Canadian-born American artist * Boris Schapiro, British bridge player * J. Salwyn Schapiro, American historian * Steve Schapiro, American photojournalist * Leonard Schapiro, British historian * Mary Schapiro, American SEC chair (2009-2012) * Morris Schapiro, American chess master * Sascha Schapiro, Ukrainian anarchist * Andrew H. Schapiro, US Ambassador See also * Shapiro Shapiro, and its variations such as Shapira, Schapiro, Schapira, Sapir, Sapira, Spira, Sapiro, Spiro (name)/Spyro (in Greek), Szapiro/ Szpiro (in Polish) and Chapiro (in French), is a Jewish Ashkenazi surname. Etymology The surname is derive ... * Shapero * Shapeero {{surname Surnames Jewish surnames Yiddish-language surnames ...
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Jewish Surnames
Jewish surnames are family names used by Jews and those of Jewish origin. Jewish surnames are thought to be of comparatively recent origin; the first known Jewish family names date to the Middle Ages, in the 10th and 11th centuries CE. Jews have some of the largest varieties of surnames among any ethnic group, owing to the geographically diverse Jewish diaspora, as well as cultural assimilation and the recent trend toward Hebraization of surnames. Some traditional surnames relate to Jewish history or roles within the religion, such as Cohen ("priest"), Levi, Shulman ("synagogue-man"), Sofer ("scribe"), or Kantor ("cantor"), while many others relate to a secular occupation or place names. The majority of Jewish surnames used today developed in the past three hundred years. History Historically, Jews used Hebrew patronymic names. In the Jewish patronymic system the first name is followed by either ''ben-'' or ''bat-'' ("son of" and "daughter of," respectively), and then the f ...
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