b. 1915d. 2003

Robert Strassburg


Robert Strassburg
Robert Strassburg was distinguished as a composer as well as musicologist, conductor, and music educator. He authored the biography Ernest Bloch: Voice in the Wilderness and had an interest in Jewish liturgical music. One of his most notable American songs is "Prayer of Columbus," which sets the poetry of Walt Whitman. Photo: Ernest Bloch, Milken Archive of Jewish Music

About

“Robert Strassburg was born in New York, but spent a good part of his active musical life in the Los Angeles area. His educational pedigree is impressive. He studied with Stravinsky, Piston, and Hindemith, the last named at Tanglewood. From 1943 on, he served on the faculties of a number of music schools and universities. He also established and directed the Roy Harris Archives and published a catalog of Harris’s works. Strassburg’s activities as a composer have been nearly equally divided between sacred and secular works.”

–Jerry Dubins, Fanfare

Records

1997

To The Soul – Poetry Of Walt Whitman

Ernst Bacon, Leonard Bernstein, Henry T. Burleigh, Gerald Busby, Philip Dalmas, Charles Ives, Charles Naginski, Ned Rorem, Robert Strassburg, Michael Tilson Thomas, Kurt Weill, Elinor Remick Warren, Walt Whitman