WILLIAM SCHUMAN, LINCOLN CENTER FOUNDER, DIES AT 81

                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: SUNDAY, February 16, 1992                   TAG: 9202160139
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: D5   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: NEW YORK                                LENGTH: Short
WILLIAM SCHUMAN, LINCOLN CENTER FOUNDER, DIES AT 81
William Schuman, a Pulitzer Prize-winning composer who was the founding president of New York's Lincoln Center and president of the Juilliard School, died Saturday. He was 81.
Schuman died after hip surgery at Lenox Hill Hospital, his family said.
During a musical career that spanned more than 60 years, Schuman was known as a craftsman who incorporated American folk and jazz into his works.
Though he considered himself a composer first, Schuman championed American music, composers and performers as an educator and administrator.
He composed 10 symphonies; five ballet scores; violin, viola and cello concertos; four string quartets; band scores; operas; and numerous works for chorus.
In 1943, he won the first Pulitzer ever awarded for music for "Secular Cantata No. 2." In 1985, was honored with a special Pulitzer for his work in music.
Even during his busiest periods at Lincoln Center, one of the nation's top centers for the performing arts, Schuman managed to compose a minimum of 600 hours a year. He kept track with a detailed journal.
"My music has not changed over the years," he said in 1980. "My music can always be sung. And I have never written a note in my life that was not deeply felt."
Survivors include his wife, Frances; a son; a daughter; one grandchild; and a sister.
Memo: shorter version ran in the Metro edition.

by Bhavesh Jinadra by CNB