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'''Meyer Kupferman''' (July 3, 1926 – November 26, 2003) was a prolifican American [[composer]] and [[clarinetist]].
 
==Life==
 
Meyer Kupferman was born in [[New York City]] to Jewish parents.<ref>[http://www.milkenarchive.org/people/view/all/594/Kupferman,+Meyer Meyer Kupferman] at the Milken Archive of Jewish Music; accessed January 9, 2014</ref> A self-taught composer, Kupferman first gained attention in the late 1940s when his early opera "In A Garden" was premiered at the [[Tanglewood]] and [[Edinburgh Festival]]s. From 1951 to 1993 he was on the faculty of [[Sarah Lawrence College]]. He also served as Chairman of the Music Department for five terms.
Kupferman began music at the age of five on violin. As an adult he claimed little memory of his violin instruction, but at age 10 he began to play the clarinet. He taught himself piano and studied music theory at [[The High School of Music & Art]] in New York City, subsequently attending [[Queens College]] in New York.
 
As a young man Kupferman played jazz in bars and clubs on [[Coney Island]], and arranged for [[big band]]s. In 1951 he was hired as Professor of Composition and Chamber Music at Sarah Lawrence College, a position he held until 1994. In the 1950s he began to experiment with twelve-tone row techniques, and in 1961 devised his "Infinities Row," consisting of the group of notes of G-F-A''b''-B-B''b''-D-F#-E-C-E''b''-A-C#G–F–A{{Music|flat}}–B–B{{Music|flat}}–D–F{{Music|sharp}}–E–C–E{{Music|flat}}–A–C{{Music|sharp}}, which would become the only tone row he used subsequently in his major works. In 1990 he published ''Atonal Jazz.''.
 
Much of Kupferman's music contains large gestures and short dramatic hooks which are a critical to his compositional technique (his "gestalt form"). His works are eclectic syntheses of disparate elements. Their extremes of contrast, and outrageousness were reflections of his personal life.
 
Kupferman resided in [[Rhinebeck (town), New York|Rhinebeck, New York]], where he and his wife Pei-Fen welcomed members of the community. On the day before Thanksgiving, November 26, 2003, he died of heart failure.
 
== Filmography ==
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* ''[[Blast of Silence]]'' (1961)
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==Notes==
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==References==
* Esko, Gary, ''A Talk with Meyer Kupferman'', interview, http://www.jamesarts.com/internationalcomposer/kupferman.html.
* Kraft, Leo, on ''New Music Connoisseur'', [https://web.archive.org/web/20040422205638/http://www.newmusicon.org/v11n3/obit-kupferman.html].
* Phillips, Robert, “Meyer Kupferman’s Compositions with Classical Guitar” ''[[Soundboard (magazine)|Soundboard]]'' vol. xxvii, nos. 3&4, Winter/Spring 2001, 7-14.
* Sadie, S. (ed.) (1980) ''The New Grove Dictionary of Music & Musicians'', [vol. # 10].
 
==External links==
{{Archival records|title=Meyer Kupferman collection, 1947-2003|location= [[Music Division, Library of Congress]]|description_URL=https://lccn.loc.gov/2014572452}}
* {{IMDb name|0475477}}
*[http://www.meyerkupferman.com/ Meyer Kupferman Web Site]
*[http://www.soundspells.com/ Soundspells Web Site (Kupferman's publisher)]
*[http://www.jamesarts.com/internationalcomposer/kupferman.html A Talk with Meyer Kupferman]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20040422205638/http://www.newmusicon.org/v11n3/obit-kupferman.html Meyer Kupferman on "New music Connoisseur]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070310211747/http://www.sai-national.org/pubs/win99/mkupferm.html SAI-national.org]
*[http://www.bruceduffie.com/kupferman.html Interview with Meyer Kupferman], December 9, 1991
 
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[[Category:Fiorello H. LaGuardiaThe High School of Music & Art alumni]]
[[Category:PeopleMusicians from New York City]]
[[Category:Sarah Lawrence College faculty]]
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[[Category:2003 deaths]]
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[[Category:Classical musicians from New York (state)]]
[[Category:20th-century American male musicians]]
[[Category:20th-century American Jews]]
[[Category:21st-century American Jews]]
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