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Adler, Samuel
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Adler, Samuel (1809–91) rabbi; born in Worms, Germany. He was educated, ordained, and served as a rabbi in Germany (1842–57). In 1857 he came to New York to become rabbi of Temple Emanu-El. He wrote numerous monographs and played a leading role in Reform Judaism; his revision of the prayer book became a model for later Reform prayer books.


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Although born in Taiwan in 1957, he earned his doctorate from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, under the tutelage of Samuel Adler and Christopher Rouse, and writes in a language rooted in western tonality.
Two Hanukkah pieces by Samuel Adler and Michael Isaacson will be presented, as will a little tongue-in-cheek frivolity that will have the audience smiling, or possibly laughing out loud.
A noted proponent of contemporary music, he has performed the world premieres of works written for him by George Crumb, Vincent Persichetti, Gunther Schuller, Samuel Adler and others.
 
 
 
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