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<div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content mw-content-ltr" lang="de" dir="ltr"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="de" dir="ltr"><p><b>Howard Pollack</b> (* <a href="17._M%C3%A4rz" title="17. März">17. März</a> <a href="1952" title="1952">1952</a> in <a href="Brooklyn" title="Brooklyn">Brooklyn</a>, <a href="New_York_City" title="New York City">New York</a>) ist ein <a href="Vereinigte_Staaten" title="Vereinigte Staaten">US-amerikanischer</a> <a href="Pianist" title="Pianist">Pianist</a> und <a href="Musikwissenschaft" title="Musikwissenschaft">Musikwissenschaftler</a>.
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<p>Pollack begann sein Klavierstudium bei Jennie Glickman an der James Madison High School in Brooklyn und setzte es bei John Kollen und Eugene Bossart an der <a href="University_of_Michigan" title="University of Michigan">University of Michigan</a> fort, wo er 1973 seinen Bachelor of Music erhielt. Daneben besuchte er 1970 einen Kurs bei <a href="Adele_Marcus" title="Adele Marcus">Adele Marcus</a> beim Aspen Music Festival. Er beendete seine Studien mit einem Master of Arts (1977) und einen <a href="Ph.D." title="Ph.D.">Ph.D.</a> (1981) in Musikwissenschaft an der <a href="Cornell_University" title="Cornell University">Cornell University</a>, wo er bei William Austin mit einer Arbeit über <i><a href="Walter_Piston" title="Walter Piston">Walter Piston</a> and His Music</i> promovierte. Außerdem studierte er Komposition bei <a href="Samuel_Adler_(Komponist)" title="Samuel Adler (Komponist)">Samuel Adler</a> in <a href="Rochester_(New_York)" title="Rochester (New York)">Rochester (New York)</a>.
</p><p>Anschließend lehrte er am <a href="Rochester_Institute_of_Technology" title="Rochester Institute of Technology">Rochester Institute of Technology</a>, an der Cornell University und am Empire State College in <a href="Saratoga_Springs_(New_York)" title="Saratoga Springs (New York)">Saratoga Springs (New York)</a>. 1987 ging er an die Moores School of Music der <a href="University_of_Houston" title="University of Houston">University of Houston</a> und erhielt dort 2005 eine <a href="Professur" class="mw-redirect" title="Professur">Professur</a>.
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<p>Pollack erhielt den Deems Taylor Award der <a href="American_Society_of_Composers%2C_Authors_and_Publishers" title="American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers">American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers</a> (2000) und den Irving Lowens Award der Society for American Music (2001) sowie einen weiteren Deems Taylor Award für seine Monographie über George Gershwin (2008).
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<ul><li><i>Walter Piston</i>, 1982</li>
<li><i><a href="Harvard_University" title="Harvard University">Harvard</a> Composers: Walter Piston and his Students, from <a href="Elliott_Carter" title="Elliott Carter">Elliott Carter</a> to <a href="Frederic_Rzewski" title="Frederic Rzewski">Frederic Rzewski</a></i>, Scarecrow Press 1992</li>
<li>mit Claus Reschke, <i>German Literature and Music: An Aesthetic Fusion 1890–1989</i>, München: W. Fink 1992 (= <i>Houston German Studies</i>, Vol. 8); ISBN 3-7705-2789-5</li>
<li><i><a href="John_Alden_Carpenter" title="John Alden Carpenter">John Alden Carpenter</a>: A Chicago Composer</i>, Chicago: University of Illinois Press 1995; ISBN 978-0252070143 (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.de/books?id=BvhZdjEf2TIC&printsec=frontcover&dq=John+Alden+Carpenter&hl=de&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjmleLml5nuAhWswAIHHYPxDB0Q6AEwAXoECAYQAg#v=onepage&q=John%20Alden%20Carpenter&f=false">Digitalisat</a>)</li>
<li><i><a href="Aaron_Copland" title="Aaron Copland">Aaron Copland</a>: The Life and Work of an Uncommon Man</i>, 1999</li>
<li><i><a href="George_Gershwin" title="George Gershwin">George Gershwin</a>: His Life and Work</i>, University of California Press, 2006; ISBN 978-0-520-24864-9</li>
<li><i><a href="Marc_Blitzstein" title="Marc Blitzstein">Marc Blitzstein</a>: His Life, His Work, His World</i>, Oxford University Press, 2012</li></ul>
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<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101204042710/http://www.music.uh.edu/people/pollack.html">Biographie</a></li></ul>
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