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EUDICE SHAPIRO (BUFFALO, NEW YORK, 7 AUGUST, 1914 – STUDIO CITY, LOS ANGELES, SEPTEMBER 17, 2007)

 

 

 

 

Eudice Shapiro was a violinist, chamber musician and violin professor.

Shapiro was born in Buffalo, New York, in 1914.

Shapiro began studying violin with her father when she was 5, won her first prize when she was 10 and began her solo career with the Buffalo Philharmonic when she was 12. She studied with Gustave Tinlot at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, and with Efrem Zimbalist at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia.

She moved to Los Angeles in 1941 to begin playing in Hollywood studios for Paramount, United Artists and RKO. She was the first female concertmaster in any studio orchestra, beginning at RKO and Paramount.

Shapiro was on the University of Southern California faculty starting in 1956. During the 1970s, she was the Dorothy Richard Starling Professor of Violin at the Shepherd School of Music of Rice University.

She died Sept. 17, 2007.

 

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Brahms, Eudice Shapiro, Ralph Berkowitz – The Sonatas For Violin And Piano

Label: Vanguard – VRS-1009

Format: Vinyl, LP, Mono

Country: US

Released: 1958

Genre: Classical

Style: Romantic

Sonatas For Violin and Piano

Nr.1 In G-Dur, Op.78

A1 Vivace Ma Non Troppo

A2 Adagio

A3 Allegro Molto Moderato

Nr.2 In A-Dur, Op.100

A4 Allegro Amable

B1 Andante Tranquillo

B2 Allegretto Grazioso (Quasi Andante)

Nr.3 In D-Moll, Opo.108

B3 Allegro

B4 Adagio

B5 Un Poco Presto E Con Sentimento

B6 Presto Agitato

Manufactured By – Vanguard Recording Society, Inc.

Copyright © – Vanguard Recording Society, Inc.

Piano – Ralph Berkowitz

Violin – Eudice Shapiro