Wikipedia's first sentence called it “american composer and conductor”. Today it says “german-american composer”.
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Samuel Adler for the rabbi.1Samuel Adler (born March 4 , 1928 ) is an American composer and conductor .2He was born to a Jewish family in Mannheim , Germany and fled to the United States in 1939 . From 1966 until his retirement in 1994 , he taught at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York . v t e3
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Samuel Hans Adler (born March 4, 1928) is an American ( German -born) composer and conductor .
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Samuel Hans Adler (born March 4, 1928) is an American composer and conductor .
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Samuel Hans Adler (born March 4, 1928) is an American composer , conductor , author, and professor.During the course of a professional career which ranges over six decades he has served as a faculty member at both the University of Rochester 's Eastman School of Music and the Juilliard School .In addition, he is credited with founding and conducting the U.S.Seventh Army 's Seventh Army Symphony Orchestra which participated in the cultural diplomacy initiatives of the United States in Germany and throughout Europe in the aftermath of World War II .Adler's musical catalogue includes over 400 published compositions.He has been honored with several awards including Germany's Order of Merit – Officer's Cross .
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American composer and conductor For other people named Samuel Adler, see Samuel Adler (disambiguation) . Samuel Hans Adler (born March 4, 1928) is an American composer , conductor , author, and professor. During the course of a professional career which ranges over six decades he has served as a faculty member at both the University of Rochester 's Eastman School of Music and the Juilliard School . In addition, he is credited with founding and conducting the Seventh Army Symphony Orchestra which participated in the cultural diplomacy initiatives of the United States in Germany and throughout Europe in the aftermath of World War II . Adler's musical catalogue includes over 400 published compositions. He has been honored with several awards including Germany's Order of Merit – Officer's Cross .
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American composer and conductor For other people named Samuel Adler, see Samuel Adler (disambiguation) . Samuel Hans Adler (born March 4, 1928) is a German-American composer , conductor , author, and professor. During the course of a professional career which ranges over six decades he has served as a faculty member at both the University of Rochester 's Eastman School of Music and the Juilliard School . In addition, he is credited with founding and conducting the Seventh Army Symphony Orchestra which participated in the cultural diplomacy initiatives of the United States in Germany and throughout Europe in the aftermath of World War II . Adler's musical catalogue includes over 400 published compositions. He has been honored with several awards including Germany's Order of Merit – Officer's Cross .
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american composer and conductor
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german-american composer
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