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Photographs of Musical and Artistic Associates
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Harold Schiffman with Randall Thompson at the Greensboro Railroad Station, seeing Thompson off for Thompson's return to Princeton.
Greensboro, North Carolina
(Spring 1946)
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Roger Sessions (center), with whom Harold Schiffman had studied, was the guest composer for the Florida Composers League's meeting at Florida State University, where he is seen here with Leonard Mastrogiacomo (left) who performed Sessions' second piano sonata at the meeting -- and who two years earlier had premièred the Sonata No. 1 for Piano (1951) of Harold Schiffman (seen at the right).
Tallahassee, Florida
(16 March 1963)
Photograph by Ken Richards of the FSU News Bureau
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While in Tallahassee, Roger Sessions visited Wakulla Springs, just South of Tallahassee, to enjoy its serenity and beauty.
Wakulla Springs, Florida
(17 March 1963)
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Harold Schiffman standing next to the Dohnányi Ernő memorial plaque and road sign for Dohnányi Ernő út, the street honoring and bearing his mentor Ernst von Dohnányi's name.
Budapest, Hungary
(26 September 2007)
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Detail of the plaque honoring and memorializing Ernst von Dohnányi (Dohnányi Ernő), attached to the North wall of the Franz Liszt Academy (Liszt Ferenc Zenemüvészeti Egyetem, or Liszt Ferenc Zeneakadémia) in Budapest.
Budapest, Hungary
(26 September 2007)
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Krzysztof Penderecki (fourth from the left) met with resident composers and students during his visiting professorship at Florida State University's School of Music. Harold Schiffman (second from the left) was Penderecki's special assistant during the visiting professorship.
Tallahassee, Florida
(Spring 1975)
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Harold Schiffman and Richard Burgin (right) discussing Harold's Prelude and Variations (1970), written for Burgin.
Photographed in Burgin's studio, Florida State University School of Music.
Tallahassee, Florida
(Fall 1970)
[Photographer unknown]
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L to R: Jane Perry-Camp, Harold, Janice Harsanyi - at LaGuardia Airport, awaiting the return flight to Tallahassee after the Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center concert with its world première of Epigram (1980)
New York, New York
(31 January 1981)
Photograph by Nicholas Harsanyi
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Gathered at an intermission during the Inaugural Festival of New Music at Florida State University are a few of the Festival's participants and members of the audience.
Foreground: (L to R) composers Harold Schiffman (Founding Director of the Festival) and Allan Blank, trombonist William Cramer
Background: (L to R) guest Ann Woodward (back to camera), harpsichordist Karyl Louwenaar (partially hidden), pianist Leonard Mastrogiacomo
Tallahassee, Florida
(May 1981)
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Jane Perry-Camp on stage, after the première of the Chamber Concertino for Piano and Double Wind Quintet (1985)
Opperman Music Hall, The Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida
(3 April 1986)
Photograph by Dixon Withers-Julian Photography
© 1986 Dixon Withers-Julian Photography
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Bill and Wilma Millsaps at the
Stewart Cabin on Big Santeetlah.
Wilma's great (4X) uncle, Arch
Stewart, built this cabin in the 1800s.
Photograph by Janet Ward
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The Győr Philharmonic Orchestra ( Győri Filharmonikus Zenekar) on the stage of the orchestra's home:
The János Richter Hall, Győr, Hungary.
Photograph courtesy of the Győr Philharmonic Orchestra
(http://www.gyorifilharmonikusok.hu/)
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Violinist Rebekah Binford and composer Harold Schiffman, following her première of his Sonata for Solo Violin (1993), Southeastern Composers' League 1998 Festival of New Music.
Rowe Recital Hall, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
(26 March 1998)
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(L to R) Mátyás Antal, David Zsolt Király, Harold Schiffman, Szidónia Juhász, upon the completion of recording Harold's Symphony (1961) – standing near the Evangelical Church (Evangélikus Öretemplom), where the recording was made
Győr, Hungary
(19 May 1998)
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Pianist Imre Rohmann with Harold Schiffman.
Salzburg, Austria
(31 May 1998)
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Kathleen Manon Schiffman,
dedicatée of Kate´s Suite.
Connecticut (1999)
Photograph by Roger Schiffman
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Stephanie Rohmann performing
Fanny´s Minuet.
Salzburg, Austria
(22 June 1999)
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Oboe d´amorist Julie Ann Giacobassi´s arrival in Budapest, with her presentation flowers.
Ferihegy Airport, Budapest, Hungary
(28 June 1999)
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Harold Schiffman and harp soloist Adél Bélyei.
János Richter Hall, Győr, Hungary
(12 October 2002)
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Greeting Alma's mezzo-soprano soloist
Mária Horváth backstage.
János Richter Hall, Győr, Hungary
(15 October 2002)
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Composer Harold Schiffman and conductor Mátyás Antal after recording Alma.
János Richter Hall, Győr, Hungary
(20 October 2002)
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Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, New York: Jane Perry-Camp, pianist; Harold Schiffman, composer; Gayle Seaton, soprano – on stage after the All-Schiffman Concert celebrating his 75th Birthday;
North/South Consonance Concert Series.
(10 March 2003)
Photograph by Douglass Seaton
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Pianist Jane Perry-Camp, composer Harold Schiffman – after recording Chamber Concerto No. 2: In Memoriam Edward Kilenyi (2000).
János Richter Hall, Győr, Hungary
(15 June 2003)
Photograph by Szidónia Juhász
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With recording engineer István Biller looking on, Dávid Zsolt Király handing Harold the edited and mastered CDs containing the newly recorded Alma (2002), Prelude and Variations for Chamber Orchestra (1970) [recorded in 1999], Chamber Concerto No. 2: In Memoriam Edward Kilenyi (2000)
Győr, Hungary
(17 June 2003)
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David Moore, violoncellist, at
première of Wake (2003).
Coulter Recital Hall, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, North Carolina
(26 August 2004)
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Poet Kathryn Stripling Byer and composer Harold Schiffman after the première of Wake (2003).
Coulter Recital Hall, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, North Carolina
(26 August 2004)
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After recording, Auer Quartet with Harold Schiffman.
The courtyard of János Richter Hall, Győr, Hungary
(3 October 2004)
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The Rohmann family at home:
Tünde Kurucz, Stephanie Rohmann,
and Imre Rohmann.
Salzburg, Austria
(12 October 2004)
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Dávid Zsolt Király, Szidónia Juhász, Harold Schiffman, and Rebekah Binford, gathering aside the Danube, with the Castle (Vár) in the background.
Budapest, Hungary
(18 September 2007)
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After editing the recorded Concerto for Violin and Orchestra: from left, composer Harold Schiffman, recording engineer (front) István Biller, violinist Rebekah Binford, interpreter Szidónia Juhász.
Budafok, Hungary
(22 September 2007)
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Everybody's hero and recording engineer István Biller's "official" mascot: The Critter (associated with all CDs recorded in Győr) at age 12.
Budafok, Hungary
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Presenting the completed mastered CD:
from left, producer Dávid Zsolt Király, composer Harold Schiffman, interpreter Szidónia Juhász, and recording engineer István Biller.
Budafok, Hungary
(24 September 2007)
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Three Musicians walking to János Richter Hall, Győr.
(L to R) Harold Schiffman, Dávid Zsolt Király, Mátyás Antal
Győr, Hungary
(11 October 2008)
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Friends and their composer gathered at Győr's Mozart Café for "snacks" after Alma's rehearsal (L to R) Connie Kotis, Dávid Zsolt Király, Szidónia Juhász, Judi Howle, Harold Schiffman [and unidentified patron of the restaurant]
Győr, Hungary
(15 October 2008)
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Poet Kathryn Stripling Byer and her husband Professor Emeritus James Byer at the Miklós Révai utca entrance to Győr's City Hall, following the ceremony honoring Harold Schiffman
Győr, Hungary
(16 October 2008)
Photograph by Constance H. Kotis
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Harold Schiffman and Jane Perry-Camp celebrate the day's events, at Győr's Monarchia Restaurant – between the ceremony at Győr's City Hall and the European première of Alma in Győr's János Richter Hall
Győr, Hungary
(16 October 2008
Photograph by Constance H. Kotis
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Harold Schiffman and Géza Németh, Concertmaster Emeritus of the Győr Philharmonic Orchestra who performed the violin solo parts for the recording of Symphony (1961), photographed backstage at the János Richter Hall, Győr
Győr, Hungary
(20 October 2008)
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Principals involved in October's recordings and performance, enjoying pastries at Győr's Mozart Café, upon completion of their work. (L to R) Szidónia Juhász, Mátyás Antal, Harold Schiffman, Jane Perry-Camp, Dávid Zsolt Király, István Biller; W.A. Mozart, at the keyboard.
Győr, Hungary
(20 October 2008)
Photograph by a kind and skilled but unnamed server at the Mozart Café
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A farewell among friends and colleagues as Harold Schiffman and Jane Perry-Camp are to depart from Hungary. A bouquet of flowers from Dávid Zsolt Király was presented to Szidónia Juhász in gratitude for her indispensible role, always graciously performed, in all the months' activities.
Győr, Hungary
(29 October 2008)
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