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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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Eudice Shapiro – Modern Masterpieces For The Violin

Label: Vanguard – VRS-1023

Format: Vinyl, LP, Mono

Country: US

Released: 1958

Genre: Classical

Style: Modern

Baal Shem

Composed By – Ernest Bloch

A1 1. Vidui

A1 2. Nigun

A3 3. Simchas Torah

Rhapsody No. 2 (Revised Edition, 1945)

Composed By – Béla Bartók

A4 1. Lassu

A5 2. Friss

Saudades Do Brasil

Composed By – Darius Milhaud

B1 1. Leme

B2 2. Copacabana

B3 3. Ipanema

B4 4. Corcovado

B5 5. Tijuca

B6 6. Sumaré

B7 Kaddisch

Composed By – Maurice Ravel

Rumanian Folk Dances

Composed By – Béla Bartók

B8 1. Joc Cu Bata

B9 2. Braul

B10 3. Pe Loc

B11 4. Bucimeana

B12 5. Poarga Romanesca

B13 6. Maruntel

Record Company – Vanguard Recording Society, Inc.

Copyright © – Vanguard Recording Society, Inc.

Manufactured By – Vanguard Recording Society, Inc.

Cover – Jules Halfant

Liner Notes – S. W. Bennett

Photography By – Don Ornitz

Piano – Ralph Berkowitz

Violin – Eudice Shapiro

RIAA curve

Matrix / Runout (Label Side A): J8-OP-1837

Matrix / Runout (Label Side B): J8-OP-1838

Matrix / Runout (Runout Side A, Etched (A 1 R, stamped)): J8OP-1837-1B A 1 R

Matrix / Runout (Runout Side B, Stamped): J8 OP1838–1B A1 R