
During his military service in the American army, Samuel Adler conducted the Seventh Army Symphony Orchestra and earned the Army Medal of Honor.
Samuel Adler's compositions range widely in style, from diatonic to serial, demonstrating his versatility as a composer.
Samuel Adler served as head of the composition department at the Eastman School of Music for twenty years, starting in 1974, and later taught at the Juilliard School.
This album features all world première recordings of Samuel Adler's works.
The project for this album was funded in part by the MidAmerican Center for Contemporary Music at the College of Musical Arts of Bowling Green State University.
Samuel Adler, a prolific composer, was born in Mannheim in 1928 and moved to the United States in 1939, where he studied with notable figures like Aaron Copland and Paul Hindemith.