Mordecai Bauman
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Mordecai Bauman was an American baritone
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during his freshman year at Columbia College
in 1930, the first (and only) student to attend both institutions concurrently. At Juilliard, he studied voice with Francis Rogers.
He married Irma Commanday, and with his wife started his own school, Indian Hill, in Stockbridge, Mass.; it was the first summer school in the arts founded for teenagers.
During the Bach Tercentenary, 1985, he led a tour to the Bach Festival in Leipzig, and a few years after that he completed a documentary, The Stations of Bach, in East Germany. This was funded by the National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities, and shown nationally on PBS in 1990 for many years after. It is now owned by CUNY TV and shown yearly on Bach's birthday, March 21.
In 2006 Mordy and Irma wrote their memoir and named it, "From our Angle of Repose".
Baritone
Baritone is a type of male singing voice that lies between the bass and tenor voices. It is the most common male voice. Originally from the Greek , meaning deep sounding, music for this voice is typically written in the range from the second F below middle C to the F above middle C Baritone (or...
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Biography
Mordecai Hirsch Bauman was born on March 2, 1912 to Allen and Minnie Bauman in the Bronx, New York City. He was granted a fellowship to the Juilliard Graduate School of MusicJuilliard School
The Juilliard School, located at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City, United States, is a performing arts conservatory which was established in 1905...
during his freshman year at Columbia College
Columbia College of Columbia University
Columbia College is the oldest undergraduate college at Columbia University, situated on the university's main campus in Morningside Heights in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. It was founded in 1754 by the Church of England as King's College, receiving a Royal Charter from King George II...
in 1930, the first (and only) student to attend both institutions concurrently. At Juilliard, he studied voice with Francis Rogers.
He married Irma Commanday, and with his wife started his own school, Indian Hill, in Stockbridge, Mass.; it was the first summer school in the arts founded for teenagers.
During the Bach Tercentenary, 1985, he led a tour to the Bach Festival in Leipzig, and a few years after that he completed a documentary, The Stations of Bach, in East Germany. This was funded by the National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities, and shown nationally on PBS in 1990 for many years after. It is now owned by CUNY TV and shown yearly on Bach's birthday, March 21.
In 2006 Mordy and Irma wrote their memoir and named it, "From our Angle of Repose".