Alan Shulman

American composer, cellist and arranger Alan M. Shulman was born in Baltimore, June 4, 1915. Shulman's early studies were with Bart Wirtz (cello) and Louis Cheslock (harmony) at the Peabody Conservatory. From 1932-37 he attended the Juilliard School where he was a fellowship student, studying cello with Felix Salmond and composition with Bernard Wagenaar. While still a student, he composed music for the American Children's Theatre production of Hans Christian Anderson's The Chinese Nightingale. After graduating, he continued his cello studies with Emanuel Feuermann and composition with Paul Hindemith. Shulman taught cello at Sarah Lawrence College, Juilliard, SUNY-Purchase, Johnson State College (VT) and the University of Maine untile his retirement in 1987. He was made a Chevalier du Violoncelle by the Eva Janzer Cello Center at Indiana Unversity in 1997. Alan Shulman died July 10, 2002 at a nursing home in Hudson, New York. He is survived by his sons Jay Shulman, a cellist, and Marc Shulman, a guitarist; and daughters Laurie Shulman, a program annotator and author, and Lisa Shulman.

Titles:

• 1950 TC53490 – Threnody for String Orchestra
• 1968/2005/2023 50100324 – Interstate 90
• 1961 M412391 – Suite for the Young Cellist
• 1961 M412291 – One Man Show
• 1978 M809790 – New England Tarantella, A
• 1954 M802890 – Bop Gavotte, The
• 1954 M802690 – Portrait of Lisa
• 1954 M802990 – Minuet for Moderns
• 1961 M412191 – Hues of Blues
• 1938 M803190 – Nocturne for Strings, A
• 2022 52703617 – Wash Rag for String Quartet
• 1954 M803090 – Elizabethan Legend, An
• 1954 M802790 – Viennese Lace
• 1972 and 2014 50508001 – Two Chorales for Brass