Seymour barab biography of abraham lincoln

Cellist and composer raised in Chicago who started playing the church organ professionally when he was only thirteen years old and studied piano in high school until the conductor of the school orchestra encouraged him to take a crack at the cello.

Before long, he was playing cello in the orchestra and was not long out of high school when he was doing the same for the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. He went on to perform with the Cleveland Orchestra, The Philadelphia Orchestra, and the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra.

While living in Chicago, he helped found the New Music Quartet; Later, in New York City, he was a founder member of Columbia University’s Composer’s Quartet, dedicated to bringing to light contemporary American compositions, and New York Pro Musica, intended to revive the music of the Baroque Era and Renaissance.

He was also a teacher, and has moulded young minds at Black Mountain College, New England Conservatory