# Howard Pollack > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Howard_Pollack > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Howard_Pollack.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Pollack > Source revision: 1347661544 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|American pianist and musicologist (born 1952)}} {{Multiple issues| {{BLP sources|date=October 2010}} {{One source|date=July 2024}} }} '''Howard Pollack''' (born March 17, 1952) is an American pianist and musicologist, known for his biographies of American composers. ==Biography== Pollack was born in [Brooklyn](/source/Brooklyn) and studied piano while attending James Madison High School. He continued his piano studies at the [University of Michigan](/source/University_of_Michigan), where he received his Bachelor of Music in 1973; and at the Aspen Music Festival in 1970. He received a Master of Arts degree (1977) and Ph.D. (1981) in musicology from [Cornell University](/source/Cornell_University), where he wrote his thesis, "[Walter Piston](/source/Walter_Piston) and His Music", under the supervision of William Austin. He also studied composition privately with [Samuel Adler](/source/Samuel_Adler_(composer)) in Rochester. After serving on the faculties of the [Rochester Institute of Technology](/source/Rochester_Institute_of_Technology), Cornell University, and [Empire State College](/source/Empire_State_College), Pollack joined the faculty of the [University of Houston](/source/University_of_Houston) in 1987, becoming John and Rebecca Moores Professor of Music in 2005. Pollack's books include biographies of [Walter Piston](/source/Walter_Piston), [John Alden Carpenter](/source/John_Alden_Carpenter), [Aaron Copland](/source/Aaron_Copland), [George Gershwin](/source/George_Gershwin), and [Marc Blitzstein](/source/Marc_Blitzstein). In addition, he co-edited, with Claus Reschke, ''German Literature and Music: An Aesthetic Fusion (1890–1989)'' (1992). He also has published articles on [Joseph Haydn](/source/Joseph_Haydn), [Victor Herbert](/source/Victor_Herbert), [Charles Griffes](/source/Charles_Griffes), [Samuel Barber](/source/Samuel_Barber), and [Carlisle Floyd](/source/Carlisle_Floyd).{{cn|date=July 2024}} Pollack received the Deems Taylor Award from [ASCAP](/source/ASCAP) (2000) and the [Irving Lowens](/source/Irving_Lowens) Award from the Society for American Music (2001) for ''Aaron Copland'' and an Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research from the Association for Recorded Sound Collections (2007) and another Deems Taylor Award (2008) for ''George Gershwin''. His other awards include grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the [Kurt Weill Foundation for Music](/source/Kurt_Weill_Foundation_for_Music), the [Newberry Library](/source/Newberry_Library), the American Musicological Society, and the Society for American Music.{{citation needed|date=November 2012}} Pollack is a professor at the [Moores School of Music](/source/Moores_School_of_Music) of the [University of Houston](/source/University_of_Houston).{{cite web |url=http://www.music.uh.edu/people/pollack.html |title=Moores School Faculty Profile: Howard Pollack |accessdate=2010-11-09 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101204042710/http://www.music.uh.edu/people/pollack.html |archivedate=2010-12-04 }} ==Bibliography== *''Walter Piston'' (1982) *''Harvard Composers: Walter Piston and his Students, from Elliott Carter to Frederic Rzewski'' (1992) *''John Alden Carpenter: A Chicago Composer'' (1995) *''Aaron Copland: The Life and Work of an Uncommon Man'' (1999) *''George Gershwin: His Life and Work'' (University of California Press, 2006); {{ISBN|978-0-520-24864-9}} *''Marc Blitzstein: His Life, His Work, His World'' (Oxford University Press, 2012) *''The Ballad of John Latouche: An American Lyricist's Life and Work'' (Oxford University Press, 2017) *''Samuel Barber: His Life & Legacy'' (University of Illinois Press, 2023) ==References== {{reflist}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Pollack, Howard}} Category:1952 births Category:20th-century American biographers Category:Living people Category:Texas classical music Category:University of Houston faculty Category:University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance alumni Category:Copland scholars Category:21st-century American biographers Category:American male biographers --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Howard Pollack](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Pollack) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Pollack?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.