Background
Fine, Irving Gifford was born on December 3, 1914 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of George and Charlotte Same (Freedman) Fine.
Fine, Irving Gifford was born on December 3, 1914 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of George and Charlotte Same (Freedman) Fine.
Bachelor of Arts, Harvard, 1937, Master of Arts, 1938. Studied piano Frances L. Grover, music theory and composition with Edward Burlingame Hill, Walter Piston, choral conducting with Archibald T. Davison, orchestral conducting with Serge Koussevitsky. Advanced composition with Nadia Boulanger (Wyman Foundation grantee), France, 1939.
Faculty music department Harvard, 1940-1945, instructor, 1942-1945, assistant professor, 1945-1950, assistant conductor Harvard Glee Club, 1942-1945. Faculty Berkshire Music Center, Tanglewood, Massachusetts, since 1946. Company-director Salzburg Music Seminar, 1950.
Faculty music department Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, since 1950, composer-in-residence, 1950-1952, associate professor, 1952-1953, Walter West. Naumburg professor, since 1953, chairman School Creative Arts, 1951-1954, 56—.
Member MacDowell Colony, 1947, 49, 52, 54. Fulbright research fellow, France, 1949. Member League of Composers, A.S.C.A.P.
Married Verna Louise Rudnick, June 25, 1941. Children: Claudia Carol, Emily Alison, Joanna Lisa.