Abram Chasins

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Abram Chasins (September 17, 1903 – June 21, 1987) was an American composer, pianist, lecturer, musicologist, radio engineer, and writer. He was born in Manhattan, New York, and pursued additional education at the Columbia University Extension School. He studied piano with Ernest Hutcheson and composition with Rubin Goldmark at the Juilliard School of Music before heading to the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where he continued piano studies with Józef Hofmann. He studied music analysis with Sir Donald Tovey in London in 1931. Chasins' career as a pianist spanned 1927 to 1947. He appeared in many solo recitals and appeared with major orchestras in the United States, Canada, South America, and Europe. Ossip Gabrilowitsch conducted his debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra on January 1, 1929. * He appeared at the premiere of his Second Piano Concerto in March 1933, this time with the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Leopold Stokowski. Chasins taught piano from 1926 to 1935 as a member of the Curtis Institute's faculty. * He appeared on WQXR from 1941 to 1965, rising to become the music director in 1946. * His own radio show, "Piano Pointers," aired from 1932 to 1939, and he used his E flat minor Prelude as the program's theme. Constance Keene, a pianist and former student of his, with whom he appeared and recorded piano duos, married him in 1949. * In 1972, he returned to the University of Southern California as a musician-in-residence, and reorganized the student-run radio station KUSC into a channel for classical and modern music. * He died of cancer at his home in Manhattan on June 21, 1987. Chasins composed over 100 works, mainly for the piano. His Three Chinese Pieces (1920s) were performed by celebrated pianists such as Josef Lhévinne, Józef Hofmann, William Kapell, and Shura Cherkassky, and in its orchestrated version, Toscanini's first American work was performed by Toscanini. "Concert's Life" by Strauss is one of his best works for two pianos, four hands, and his 24 Preludes for Piano (1928) are still used as teaching pieces. Leopold Stokowski's biography, including Speaking of Pianists (1959), The Appreciation of Music (1966), The Artist (1959), The Van Cliburn Legend (1958), A History of Music (1967), Leopold Stokowski (1978), and The Appreciation of Music (1978).

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