Frank Lewin (March 27, 1925 – January 18, 2008) was anAmericancomposer and teacher.

Frank Lewin was born March 27, 1925, inBreslau,Germany. He and his family escaped from Germany in 1939, spent a year in Cuba, and came to the United States in 1940. Lewin studied composition withFelix Deyo at theBaldwin Conservatory (Long Island, New York);Jack Frederick Kilpatrick andHans David atSouthern Methodist University;Roy Harris in Logan, Utah; andRichard Donovan andPaul Hindemith at theYale School of Music, where he received his Bachelor of Music degree in 1951.

Lewin composed and edited music for feature, documentary, and television films, including dozens of original scores forThe Defenders andThe Nurses. He wrote incidental music for plays fromWilliam Shakespeare toTennessee Williams, and composed scores for historical outdoor dramas byPaul Green and others, in various parts of the country. He also wrote a number of concert compositions including two operas, several orchestral works, concertos for viola and harmonica, song cycles, and choral music.

Lewin was a professor at theYale School of Music from 1971 to 1992, teaching composition for film; and at theColumbia University School of the Arts from 1975 to 1989, where he taught the course "Music in Modern Media."

Lewin lived inPrinceton, New Jersey from 1951 until his death on January 18, 2008.^[1]

Operas

• Gulliver, an opera in two acts, with some sections composed by Easley Blackwood and Elliot Kaplan (1975)
• Burning Bright, based on the novel and play byJohn Steinbeck (1993)

Orchestral

• Evocation (1960)
• Concerto for Harmonica and Orchestra, (1960)
• Concerto Armonico, viola and orchestra (1960); revision and transcription of theHarmonica Concerto by violistBrett Deubner (2006)
• Concerto on Silesian Tunes, viola concerto (1965)

Instrumental

• Dunlap's Creek, for organ and English horn (1953)
• Music for the New Family of Violins, for the eight instruments designed and built byCarleen Hutchins (1965)

Choral

• Psalm 121 (1942)
• Psalm 148 (1949)
• Psalm 137 (1956)
• Behold, How Good (1959)
• Seasons (1962)
• Music for the White House (1965)
• Requiem for Robert F. Kennedy (Mass for the Dead, in English) (1969)

Solo vocal music

• Shall I Compare Thee (1949)
• A Dutch Lullaby, setting of the poemWynken, Blynken, and Nod (1952)
• Innocence and Experience, poetry fromSongs of Innocence and Experience byWilliam Blake (1961)
• Variations of Greek Themes, poetry byEdwin Arlington Robinson (1977)
• A Musical Nashery, poetry byOgden Nash (1980)
• Wedding Music setting of theSong of Solomon (1981)
• Phoenix (1993)
• She Walks in Beauty, setting of the poem byLord Byron (1994)

Theater music

• The Trojan War Will Not Take Place byJean Giraudoux (1952)
• Theater of the Soul byNikolai Evreinov (1953)
• Summer and Smoke by Tennessee Williams (1954)
• The Tempest by William Shakespeare (1955)
• Knight of the Burning Pestle byBeaumont and Fletcher (1955)
• Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare (1956)
• Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare (1957)
• Blood Wedding byFederico García Lorca (1957)
• A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare (1958)
• Thieves' Carnival byJean Anouilh (1958)
• Leonce and Lena byGeorg Büchner (1958)
• The Tempest by William Shakespeare (1967)
• Caesar at the Rubicon byTheodore White (1971)
• Streets of Gold by Tom DeTitta (1992)

Historical outdoor dramas

• Beyond the Sundown byKermit Hunter (1975)
• The McIntosh Trail by Kermit Hunter (1976)
• Dust on her Petticoats by Kermit Hunter (1976)
• Hernando DeSoto, Conquistador by Kermit Hunter (1976)
• Blue Jacket by W.L. "Rusty" Mundell (1982)
• Trumpet in the Land byPaul Green (1984)
• The White Savage by Joseph Bonamico and Mark Durbin (1997)

Film and television

• Wanted, CBS TV series (1955–56), theme composer
• The Nurses, television series (1961–63)
• The Defenders, television series (1962–65)
• A Year Toward Tomorrow, documentary film (1967)
• Animal Doctor documentary film forUSIA (1968)
• J.T., CBS Children's Television Workshop movie (1969)
• The Plot Against Harry, feature film directed byMichael Roemer (1989)

• The Soundtrack in Nontheatrical Motion Pictures Society of Motion Picture Engineers, 1958.
• Man and His Sound—Expo 67. Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, 1968.
• Burning Bright, The Genesis of an Opera, Lyrica Society, 1985.
• The Music of Language in a Passage from Tannhäuser, Ars Lyrica, Journal of the Lyrica Society for Word-Music Relations, Volume XIII, 2003.
• Reflecting on Wagner

• Fellowships from theNational Endowment for the Arts andNew Jersey State Council on the Arts
• Distinguished Artist Award fromNew Jersey State Council on the Arts

• Auld, Louis E. (1985).Burning Bright, The Genesis of an Opera: an interview with Frank Lewin. Guildford, CT: Lyrica Society.ISBN 0-937129-00-3.

• Frank Lewin atIMDb
• Frank Lewin website

• American film score composers
• American male classical composers
• American classical composers
• 1925 births
• 2008 deaths
• Yale School of Music alumni
• Musicians from Princeton, New Jersey
• Burials at Princeton Cemetery
• Emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United States
• 20th-century American composers
• American male film score composers
• 20th-century American male composers

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