Seymour Shifrin (28 February 1926 – 26 September 1979) was an American composer.
"[1] Shifrin's Satires of Circumstance (1964, text by Thomas Hardy) received the Koussevitzky International Recording Award for 1970.
Shifrin studied with William Schuman, Otto Luening, and Darius Milhaud.
A number of notable composers studied with Shifrin, including David Del Tredici, Pauline Oliveros, Terry Riley, and La Monte Young.
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