Wyner, Yehudi, 1929-

LC control no.	n 82105352
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Wyner, Yehudi, 1929- *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Weiner, Yehudi, 1929-
Associated country	Canada United States
Associated place	Waltham (Mass.)
Located	New York (N.Y.)
Birth date	1929-06-01
Place of birth	Calgary (Alta.)
Field of activity	Art music Composition (Music) Music--Instruction and study
Affiliation	Brandeis University Yale University State University of New York College at Purchase Berkshire Music Festival Tanglewood (Music Festival)
Profession or occupation	Composers Pianists Conductors (Music) College teachers Composition teachers (Music)
Found in	Author's Serenade for seven instruments. [Phonodisc] 1961. Baker, 8th ed. (Wyner (real name, Weiner), Yehudi; b. 6-1-29, Calgary; Canadian-born American composer, pianist, conductor, and teacher; son of Lazar Weiner, husband of Susan Davenny Wyner) Grove music online, accessed Jan. 8, 2014 (Wyner, Yehudi; b. Calgary, 1 June 1929; American composer, pianist and conductor of Canadian birth) Milken Archive of Jewish Music website, January 10, 2020 (Yehudi Wyner; 1929; Although born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, he grew up in New York City. His father, Lazar Weiner (1897-1982), was a leading exponent of Yiddish high musical culture, both as a choral conductor and as a composer; joined the faculty of Brandeis University in 1986, and he has held the Naumburg Chair in Composition there since 1990. Previously he taught for fourteen years at Yale University, where he was head of the composition faculty, and he was also dean of music at the Purchase campus of the State University of New York. He was on the chamber music faculty of the Berkshire Music Festival at Tanglewood from 1975 to 1997, and he has been a visiting professor at Cornell and Harvard universities) <https://www.milkenarchive.org/artists/view/yehudi-wyner/>