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Brandeis University is also home to the Irving Fine Society, founded in 2006 by music director Nicholas Alexander Brown. The society comprises the Irving Fine Singers and the Gifford 5, a woodwind quintet. The society "acts as a producing organization for concerts, educational programs and scholarly
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served as Irving G. Fine Professor of Music from 1969 to 1980 (and as Emeritus Professor until his death in 2003). The current Irving G. Fine Professor of Music is
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activities related to the legacy of composer Irving Gifford Fine and the global impact of American culture in the twentieth century."
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novel of the same name. A Professorship of Music at Brandeis University is named in Fine's honor. The composer
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and Pendragon Press, and received the 2006 Nicolas Slonimsky Award for Outstanding Musical Biography from
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Harvard Composers: Walter Piston and His Students, from Elliott Carter to Frederic Rzewski
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noted the "elegance, style, finish and...convincing continuity" of Fine's music.
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in August 1962. He was 47 years of age. The cause of death was heart disease.
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ASCAP Biographical Dictionary of Composers, Authors and Publishers
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composers in the mid-20th century who were sometimes called the "
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Contemporary American Composers. A Biographical Dictionary
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The Irving Fine Collection at the Library of Congress
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Notable composition students of Irving Fine include
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A Singer's Guide to the American Art Song 1870–1980
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Grove's Dictionaries of Music, 1986. 647: 494: 186: 812:20th-century American male musicians 639:"A Fine Centennial" by Ethan Iverson 288:, S, A, Bar, 3–4 voices, piano, 1944 80: 787:Jewish American classical composers 405:, by author, composer, and pianist 343:(I. Orgel), cycle, Mez, piano, 1952 306:(B. Jonson), song cycle, SATB, 1949 13: 451:, 4th edition. R. R. Bowker, 1980. 435:A Dictionary of American Composers 14: 833: 782:American male classical composers 673: 608: 128:. Fine was a conducting pupil of 772:Twelve-tone and serial composers 762:20th-century classical composers 430:, 2nd edition. G. K. Hall, 1982. 371:Notturno, strings, harp, 1950–51 312:(trad.), 2–4 voices, piano, 1952 152:, becoming a close associate of 144:School of Music in Paris and at 84: 767:20th-century American composers 499:. 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neoclassical
romantic
serial
Virgil Thomson
Aaron Copland
Boston
Boston School
Arthur Berger
Leonard Bernstein
Aaron Copland
Lukas Foss
Harold Shapero

adding to it
Boston, Massachusetts
Harvard University
Walter Piston
Serge Koussevitzky
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Nadia Boulanger
Fontainebleau
Radcliffe College
Glee Club
Leonard Bernstein
Igor Stravinsky
Aaron Copland
Brandeis University
Tanglewood Music Festival
Berkshires
Natick, Massachusetts

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