Mordecai Bauman
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Mordecai Bauman (March 12, 1912 Bronx, NY - May 16, 2007 New York City, NY) was an American baritone.
[edit] Biography
Mordecai Hirsch Bauman was born on March 12, 1912 born to Allen and Minnie Bauman in the Bronx, New York City. He was the oldest of three sons, the others being Abraham M. (born 1928) and Henry (born in 1933).
He was granted a fellowship to the Juilliard Graduate School of Music during his freshman year at Columbia College in 1930, the first 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., since the opportunities for the study of voice and opera were limited elsewhere.
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 Endowment for the Humanities, and shown nationally on PBS in 1990.
[edit] References
- Jamée Ard, "A Passion for Music," http://www.juilliard.edu/alumni/aspot_0402_Bauman.html
- Indian Hill http://www.wilchfort.com/indianhill/index.html
- Bach Tercentenary Tour led by Mordecai Bauman http://flickr.com/photos/timeportal/sets/72157603369276673/
[edit] External links
- The Mordecai Bauman papers in the Music Division of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
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