Howard Pollack is John and Rebecca Moores Professor of Music at the University of Houston, where he has taught since 1987.  He is the author of Walter Piston (1982); Harvard Composers: Walter Piston and his Students, from Elliott Carter to Frederic Rzewski (1992); John Alden Carpenter: A Chicago Composer (1995); Aaron Copland: The Life and Work of an Uncommon Man (1999); George Gershwin: His Life and Work (2006); and Marc Blitzstein: His Life, His Work, His World (2012).  In addition, he co-edited, with Claus Reschke, German Literature and Music: An Aesthetic Fusion (1890-1989) (1992), and has published articles on Joseph Haydn, Victor Herbert, Charles Griffes, Samuel Barber, and Carlisle Floyd, among other topics. His awards include the Deems Taylor Award, the Irving Lowens Award, and the Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research as well as grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Kurt Weill Foundation, the Newberry Library, the American Musicological Society, and the Society for American Music.