Awards

• Winner of Winner of The Timothy White Award for Outstanding Music Biography from the ASCAP Foundation.

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Pollack treats us to an eventful and rewarding voyage of immersion in the life and work of an important American composer. * New Music Connoisseur * The fluidity of prose, moving between established fact and new interviews and critical ideas, is remarkable, making for a book that is rivaled only by Pollack's biography of Aaron Copland ... A momentous achievement indeed ... Highly recommended. * Choice * A timely and invaluable study of a composer we need to know more about. I marvel at Howard Pollack's capacity - as with his biographies of Copland and Gershwin-to digest and synthesize a wealth of information, copiously gathered. * Joseph Horowitz, author of Classical Music in America: A History *

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Howard Pollack is John and Rebecca Moores Professor of Music at the University of Houston, where he has taught since 1987. He is the author of six books, including biographies of Walter Piston, John Alden Carpenter, Aaron Copland, George Gershwin, and Marc Blitzstein. He has received three Deems Taylor Awards and an ARSC Award for Excellence for his publications as well as two Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities among other grants and fellowships. Pollack's articles and reviews have appeared in numerous journals and encyclopedias. He also has lectured at colleges and arts organizations in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, the Czech Republic, England, Germany, Mexico, and across the United States, and has appeared in both German and American film documentaries and on such American radio shows as Morning Edition, All Things Considered, the Voice of America, and Fresh Air as well as on Australian, British, German, and New Zealand radio.

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