Word: levins
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Visiting Professor of Music Yehudi Wyner, whois teaching Music 180 this year, called Levin a"great analytical mind" and one of the "liveliestpianists in the world...
Wyner said he considered Levin's presence "atremendous achievement" for the University...
After graduating from Harvard with a magnacum laude degree in music, Levin was hired bythe late pianist Rudolph Serkin to head the musictheory department of the Curtiss Institute ofPhiladelphia. He left the Institute to take aposition as professor of music theory and chambermusic at the State University of New York (SUNY)at Purchase...
...Levin has recorded on classical labelsincluding Deutsche Grammophon and Nonesuch. He hasalso continued to research many of Mozart'sunfinished works, which were subject of hisundergraduate thesis...
Wyner, who served as dean of the faculty ofSUNY Purchase during Levin's term there, said thathe often sat in on the pianist's classes...