Discipline: Music Composition

Elias Tanenbaum

Discipline: Music Composition
Region: New Rochelle, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1958, 1962, 1964, 1966, 1969
More: www.eliastanenbaum.com
Elias Tanenbaum (1924-2008) studied trumpet at an early age and played with many jazz bands. After serving with the U.S. Army and earning a Purple Heart in World War II, he received a B.S. from the Juilliard School of Music in 1949, and an M.A. from Columbia University. He studied composition with Dante Fiorillo, Bohuslav Martinu, Otto Luening and Wallingford Riegger. Tanenbaum composed more than 100 works in all idioms. Works include music for concert, jazz, theater, television, ballet, and electronic music. His music has been performed extensively throughout the U.S., Europe, and Japan by orchestras such as the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Japan Philharmonic, Brooklyn Philharmonia, the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Westchester Philharmonic, and many other performing groups.

Studios

Phi Beta

Elias Tanenbaum worked in the Phi Beta studio.

Funded by the Phi Beta Fraternity, a national professional fraternity of music and speech founded in 1912, Phi Beta Studio was built between 1929–1931 of granite quarried on the MacDowell grounds. The small studio is a simple in design, but displays a pleasing combination of materials with its granite walls and colorful slate roofing. Inside is…

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