Background
McClure was born on June 28, 1929, in Rahway, New Jersey, United States. He grew up in nearby Colonia, New Jersey and learned to play the piano by ear.
record producer audio engineer
McClure was born on June 28, 1929, in Rahway, New Jersey, United States. He grew up in nearby Colonia, New Jersey and learned to play the piano by ear.
He studied at Oberlin college and at New York University, but did not graduate.
He had one brother. He later claimed that he never was very good at reading musical scores. After working in a number of other jobs, he obtained a junior position with the Carnegie Hall Recording Company in 1950. He was soon employed as a recording engineer for Columbia Records and by the late 1950s became a producer.
From the early 1970s, he operated in a freelance capacity.
He engineered Bruno Walter"s cycle of the nine Beethoven symphonies with the Columbia Symphony Orchestra. He also worked on over thirty recordings with Igor Stravinsky, and around 200 with Leonard Bernstein.
He oversaw recordings by the Boston Pops Orchestra under John Williams, as well as those of Aaron Copland, Isaac Stern, André Previn, and Rudolf Serkin. In the late 1970s, he helped to record the strings on Pink Floyd"s 1979 concept album, The Wall.
McClure died on June 17, 2014, at his home in Belmont, Vermont, where he kept his Grammy in a box in his barn.