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→Biography: This man was amazing (accomplished singer, teacher to professional actors, innovative recording for teaching Handel's Messiah, etc., etc.)
== Biography ==
== Biography ==
Solomon died in Beverly Hills, California on January 31, 1996.<ref name="Pace 1996"/>
Solomon died in Beverly Hills, California on January 31, 1996.<ref name="Pace 1996"/>
=== Music as a second career ===
Gus Solomon came from a family of singers, and was an accopmplished singer himself. He sang small operatic parts in Boston and Los Angeles as well as chorus tenor in many of the classical oratorios and requiems.<ref name="IEEE ITSN"> Gus also studied piano and composed songs while in his teens, and left behind a collection of over 40 folk and popular songs.
In collaboration with Michel Evje, Gus produced innovative recordings of Handel's Messiah, which facilitated the study of the choral parts. One stereo channel was a recording of a single voice and the ther channel contained the ensemble. By adjusting the stereo balance a student singers could practice their parts.<ref name="IEEE ITSN"/>
Solomon began teaching voice in 1961, and in 1995 he served as voice coach to the cast of a professional Los Angeles production of Shakespeare's ''Henry IV'', and was the voice and movement teacher to hundreds of students including many professional actors.<ref name="IEEE ITSN"/>
=== Education ===
=== Education ===
*B.A. in Mathematics from Yeshiva University in 1951
*B.A. in Mathematics from Yeshiva University in 1951