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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.

 

TRACKLIST

 

 

Eudice Shapiro, Brooks Smith – Igor Stravinsky – Duo Concertant / Divertimento (For Violin And Piano)

Label: Äva Records – A-15

Format: Vinyl, LP, Mono

Country: US

Released: 1963

Genre: Classical

Style: Modern

Duo Concertant (For Violin And Piano)

A1 Cantilena

A2 Eclogue I

A3 Eclogue II

A4 Jig

A5 Dithyrambe

Divertimento (From “Le Baiser De La Fee”)

Transcription By – Igor Stravinsky, Samuel Dushkin

B1 Sinfonia / Danses Suisses

B2 Scherzo

B3Pas De Deux a) Adagio / b) Variation / c) Coda

Composed By – Igor Stravinsky

Liner Notes – William Kraft

Photography By – William Claxton

Piano – Brooks Smith

Violin – Eudice Shapiro

 

Eudice Shapiro, Ralph Berkowitz – Stravinsky

Label: Crystal Record Co. – S302

Format: Vinyl, LP

Country: US

Released: 1976

Genre: Classical

Style: Neo-Classical

A1 Introductione

A2 Serenata

A3 Tarantella

A5 Gavotta

A6 Minutta e Finale

B1 Variation D’Apollon

B2 Berceuse

B3 Scherzo

B4 Chanson Russe

B5 Ballad

B6 Danse Russe

Accompanied By – Ralph Berkowitz (tracks: A1-6, B1-6)

Composed By – Igor Stravinsky (tracks: A1-6, B1-6)

Violin – Eudice Shapiro (tracks: A1-6, B1-6)

This is: Suite diapers des themes, fragments et morceaux de Giambatista Pergolasi. Completed in Nice on 24 August 1925, and dedicated to Paul Kochanski. There are some differences compared to Suite Italienne (made in collaboration with Gregor Piatigorski from 1932, and the version made for violin and piano I collaboration with Samuel Dushkin.

The DBX system was employed on this recording to minimize extraneous noise.

Other: 75-750691 Library of Congress Numnber