Herford (real name, Goldstein), Julius
Herford (real name, Goldstein), Julius
Herford (real name, Goldstein), Julius, German-American pianist, choral conductor, and pedagogue; b. Anklam, Feb. 22, 1901; d. Bloomington, Ind., Sept. 17, 1981. He studied piano with Kwast and composition with Klatte and Willner at the Stern Cons, in Berlin (1917–23). After touring Europe as a pianist (1923–25), he returned to Berlin as a teacher. In 1939 he emigrated to the U.S. He taught at Teachers Coll. of Columbia Univ. (1939–41), the Juilliard School of Music in N.Y. (from 1946), the Berkshire Music Center in Tanglewood (from 1946), the Union Theological Seminary in N.Y. (from 1949), the Manhattan School of Music in N.Y. (1949), and Westminster Choir Coll. in Princeton, N.J.; he also was director of graduate studies in choral conducting at the Ind. Univ. School of Music in Bloomington (1964–80). With H. Decker, he ed. the vol. Choral Conducting (1973; 2nd ed., rev., 1988 as Choral Conducting Symposium).
—Nicolas Slonimsky/Laura Kuhn/Dennis McIntire