Howard Hanson(1896-1981)
- Composer
- Music Department
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Composer, conductor and educator, himself educated at the University of
Nebraska School of Music (with an honorary Music Degree), Juilliard,
Northwestern University (honorary Music Degree), the American Academy
(Prix de Rome), Syracuse University, the Horner Institute, Augustana
College and Theology Seminary, the American Conservatory, Columbia
University, Capital University, Shurtleff College, Hartt College of
Music, New England Conservatory, Temple University, Newcomb College,
Tulane University, the University of Michigan (LL.D), Illinois Wesleyan
University, College of the Pacific (Litt. D.), Keuka College (LHD),
Drury College, and Valparaiso University. He was on the faculty and
then became the dean of the Conservatory of Fine Arts and College of
the Pacific 1919-1924, directed the Eastman School of Music 1924-1964,
and inaugurated the American Composers Concerts. He was a member of the
National Institute of Arts and Letters, a Fellow in the American
Philosophical Society, and the Royal Academy of Music in Sweden. His
awards include those from Ditson and Peabody, and he was president of
the National Association of Schools of Music, the Music Teachers
National Association, the National Music Council, and chairman of the
Advertising Music Committee and the Oberlaender Trust, and a member of
the Examining Jury of the American Academy in Rome, and on the advisory
committee on Music for the US State Department and the US Committee for
UNESCO. He made many recordings, and joined ASCAP in
1938.