David Shifrin
David Shifrin appears in the following:
Messiaen’s Mystical Marvel
Monday, October 19, 2009
Inspired by the Book of Revelation, French composer Olivier Messiaen wrote his landmark Quartet for the End of Time in 1940 while he was interned in a German prisoner-of-war camp.
The Classical Legacy of Benny Goodman
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Benny Goodman is known predominantly as a jazz musician and bandleader of the Swing era of the 1930s and 1940s, but he was also deeply involved in the commissioning, performing, and recording of classical works by some of the 20th century's greatest composers. David Shifrin, artistic director of Yale in ...