• William Howard Schuman (August 4, 1910 – February 15, 1992) was an American composer and arts administrator. Schuman was born into a Jewish family in Manhattan...
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  • Richard Roud and Amos Vogel with the support of Lincoln Center president William Schuman, it is one of the longest-running and most prestigious film festivals...
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    Jean-Baptiste Nicolas Robert Schuman (French: [ʁɔbɛʁ ʃuman]; 29 June 1886 – 4 September 1963) was a Luxembourg-born French statesman. Schuman was a Christian democratic...
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    Thomas William Schuman (born January 31, 1958) is an American jazz pianist, smooth jazz keyboardist and was the longtime co-leader, composer and arranger...
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    including Aaron Copland on Appalachian Spring, Louis Horst, Samuel Barber, William Schuman, Carlos Surinach, Norman Dello Joio, and Gian Carlo Menotti. Graham's...
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    September 2016. Cronyn, Hume (1991). Terrible Liar: A Memoir. New York: William Morrow. p. 159. ISBN 978-0-6881-2844-9. Cronyn 1991, pp. 253–54. "Jessica...
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  • academic (d. 1988) 1910 – Anita Page, American actress (d. 2008) 1910 – William Schuman, American composer and educator (d. 1992) 1910 – Hedda Sterne, Romanian-American...
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    ill-fitting costume with a low neckline, she was rebuffed by the film director William Wyler, who loudly commented to the assembled crew, "What do you think of...
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    split, and no prize was given in 1953, 1964, 1965, or 1981. 1943: William Schuman, Secular Cantata No. 2: A Free Song 1944: Howard Hanson, Symphony No...
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    slump. In 1934, Loy appeared in Manhattan Melodrama with Clark Gable and William Powell. When gangster John Dillinger was shot to death after leaving a...
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