• *William Howard Schuman; parents are Rachel and Samuel Schuman; delivered at 350 West Seventy-First Street, Manhattan (August 4)

• lives in Englewood, New Jersey

• lives in Far Rockaway, Queens

• attends the wedding of Miriam Schurmacher to Henry Heilbrunn; remembers sixty years later the principal song played: “The Love Nest”, lyrics by Otto Harbach, music by Louis A. Hirsch, which was published that year (June 9)

• returns to New York and attends P.S. 165 on 109th St. in Manhattan
• becomes friends with Eddie Marks and Ferd Nauheim

• attends Camp Cobbossee in Winthrop, Maine for the first of six summers as a camper

• Eddie Marks comes to Cobbossee with Schuman

• his play, College Chums, is given at Speyer Experimental Junior High School
1924
• gives the confirmation speech at Temple Shaaray Tefila

• plays MacDowell’s To a Wild Rose in his public debut as a violinist (May 23)

• travels to France with other NYC schoolboys as guests of the Department of Education in Paris and the Committee Accueil des Étudiants

• forms Billy Schuman and His Alamo Society Orchestra

• Three Songs without Words for Violin and Piano

• composes a tango for Cobbossee’s Monster Minstrel Show (August)

• graduates from George Washington High School (January)
• enrolls at New York University (February)
• It’s Up to Pa for Cobbossee (with Marks); several songs are published by Marks Music, including I Want To Be Near You (August)

• withdraws from NYU in the spring due to poor academic performance (February–March)
• works at Paramount Advertising Service (“Creator of Advertising Ideas”)
• works as Music and Dramatic Teacher at Cobbossee (summer; also in 1930)
• This Business Of Loving You (with Marks)
• begins harmony lessons with Max Persin at the Malkin Conservatory of Music (ca. fall)

• hears his first New York Philharmonic concert (April)
• writes to Marks: “If we want to get any place in the song business together, this summer is the time to start.” (May)
• Lovesick (with Marks) (November 15)
• works at Edward B. Marks Music Corporation as composer and arranger
• Where The Grass Grows Green (with Frank Loesser)
• Doing the Dishes (with Loesser)
• Once More

• From Dusk To Dawn (with Leonard Silver) (May 29)
• With All Due Respect (musical; with Marks et al.)
• In Love With A Memory Of You (with Loesser) (October 29)
• goes on a double date with Ferd Neuheim; Bea Strasburger and Frances Prince are the women

• Waitin’ For The Moon (January 28)
• God’s World (Edna St. Vincent Millay) (June)
• enrolls in courses at the Juilliard Summer School (orchestration; advanced theory)
• submits a guest column for the Camp Cobbossee newsletter
• participates in the Special Supervisors’ Orchestra of the Institute of Musical Art of the Juilliard School of Music
• Potpourri (Impressions of Bohemian Life) (October 1)
• Adoration (a setting of the Aleinu from the Union Prayerbook for Jewish Worship) (October 24)
• begins counterpoint lessons with Charles Trowbridge Haubiel (November 3)

• Cradle Song for piano solo (dedicated to the firstborn of Hazel S. and Sidney M. Wittner) (January 31)
• Cinq petits préludes à deux voix for piano solo (Jean Carolene Marks) (April 1)
• Selection for String Quartet Parts I & II (May 2)
• Canon (IV) (with Introduction and Coda) for piano solo (June 25)
• enrolls in courses at the Juilliard Summer School (advanced conducting; brass instruments; chorus)
• Four Canonic Choruses (Millay, Countee Cullen, Carl Sandburg, and Alfred Lord Tennyson) (July 11–February 16, 1934)
• works at Camp To-Ho-Ne, Great Barrington, Massachusetts
• enrolls at Teachers College (Columbia University)

• Canon and Fugue for violin, cello, and piano (January)
• completes counterpoint lessons with Haubiel (April)
• Pastorale no. 1 (April 1)
• works as counselor at Brant Lake Camp, Lake George, New York, where Fair Enough (“a revusical presented by the Brant Lake Players of 1934”) is performed; last time he writes popular songs
• Pastorale no. 2 (November 1)

• Choreographic Poem for Seven Instruments (March 1)
• Sonnet (Millay) (April 1)
• At Daybreak (Walter Conrad Arensberg) (before May 3 recital)
• accepts position at Sarah Lawrence College (June)
• completes Bachelor of Science (Music) degree
• takes a summer course in conducting at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria; mezzo-soprano Risë Stevens is at the Mozarteum with Schuman
• Symphony no. 1 (composed mostly in Austria)