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Sol Berkowitz (27 April 1922 – 29 July 2006) was an American composer and music educator. ==Life== Sol Berkowitz was born in Warren, Ohio, and lived in New York from 1925. He received music degrees from Queens College (CUNY) in 1942 and Columbia University in 1946. He studied piano with Abby Whiteside and composition with Karol Rathaus, Harold Morris and Otto Luening. Berkowitz was a professor at Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College from 1946 until 1999, with a brief hiatus (1961–1967) to pursue a career as a theatre, film and television composer.〔 Known as a teacher of music theory, orchestration, ear training and musicianship, Berkowitz wrote the music textbooks ''A New Approach to Sight Singing'' and ''Improvisation through Keyboard Harmony''. Berkowitz composed musicals, ballets, orchestral works, chamber music, and hundreds of choral works and songs. His musical score ''Nowhere to Go But Up!'' was produced on Broadway in 1962. Among Berkowitz's students are jazz pianist Mal Waldron, jazz guitarist Billy Bauer, musicologist Lewis Lockwood and composer Bright Sheng. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sol Berkowitz」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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