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Goddard Lieberson(1911-1977)

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Composer, author and recording executive Goddard Lieberson was educated at the University of Washington where he studied with George Frederick McKay, and with Bernard Rogers at the Eastman School of Music. He earned honorary degrees from Temple University and the Cleveland School of Music. Joining the Masterworks Department of Columbia Records in 1939, he was named department director, then vice-president of Masterworks Artists-and-Repertoire, executive vice-president in 1949, and from 1956 to 1966, president. Lieberson also became a vice-president of the CBS board of directors, the chairman of the CBS Foundation, a Yale University Library committee member, honorable curator of the Yale Coll. Literature American Musical Theatre, chairman of Music Advisory Comm. at Hopkins Center, Dartmouth, and in 1966, president of the CBS Columbia Group.
BornApril 5, 1911
DiedMay 29, 1977(66)
BornApril 5, 1911
DiedMay 29, 1977(66)
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    • 4 wins & 3 nominations total

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Known for

Gloria Swanson and James Warren in Three for Bedroom C (1952)
Three for Bedroom C
5.6
  • Writer
  • 1952
They Said It with Music: Yankee Doodle to Ragtime (1977)
They Said It with Music: Yankee Doodle to Ragtime
7.2
TV Special
  • Writer
  • 1977
Wai-Fong Chu in Soundstage (1974)
Soundstage
8.2
TV Series
  • Self - Host
Playback
TV Mini Series
  • Self - Host
  • 1960

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Writer



  • They Said It with Music: Yankee Doodle to Ragtime (1977)
    They Said It with Music: Yankee Doodle to Ragtime
    7.2
    TV Special
    • Writer
    • 1977
  • Gloria Swanson and James Warren in Three for Bedroom C (1952)
    Three for Bedroom C
    5.6
    • novel
    • 1952

Producer



  • They Said It with Music: Yankee Doodle to Ragtime (1977)
    They Said It with Music: Yankee Doodle to Ragtime
    7.2
    TV Special
    • executive producer
    • 1977

Personal details

  • Born
    • April 5, 1911
    • Hanley, Staffordshire, England, UK
  • Died
    • May 29, 1977
    • New York City, New York, USA(cancer)
  • Spouse
    • Vera ZorinaApril 2, 1946 - May 29, 1977 (his death, 2 children)
  • Other works
    (1949 through 1956) He was responsible in the late 1940s and early 1950s for the first ever LP recordings of such Broadway shows as "Girl Crazy", "Oh, Kay!", "Babes in Arms" , "Pal Joey", and the first 3-LP version of "Porgy and Bess". Although some of these recordings were done with their original orchestrations, many were not, partly because it was thought the orchestrations had been lost forever. The 1951 "Porgy and Bess" recording was the most complete version of the opera recorded up to that time, and the 1950 "Pal Joey" was so spectacularly successful that it led to the 1952 revival of the show. The most successful Broadway album produced during Lieberson's tenure was the original cast recording of "My Fair Lady", and it was during Lieberson's presidency of Columbia Records,that Leonard Bernstein's flop musical "Candide" was first recorded insuring that the show would gain a cult following.
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    Two sons: Peter Lieberson is a composer; Jonathan has a Ph.D. in philosophy from Columbia University.

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