[1] To the New York Times, 1997: "I have no birth certificate. I have a passport, but the birth date on it was the result of guesswork."
Brother: Oliver
Wife: Cornelia Brendel Foss (until his death, one son, one daughter)
Son: Christopher
Daughter: Eliza
High School: Lycee Pasteur, Paris (1932-37)
University: Curtis Institute of Music, Philadelphia (1937-39)
University: Yale University (special instruction, 1939-40)
Professor: Music, University of California at Los Angeles (1953-62)
Professor: SUNY Buffalo (1963-)
Professor: Music, Theory, and Composition, Boston University (1991-)
Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra Music Director (1981-86)
Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra Music Director (1972-76)
Brooklyn Philharmonic Music Director (1971-88)
Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra Music Director (1963-71)
American Academy of Arts and Letters 1983
Naturalized US Citizen 1942
Fulbright (1950-52)
Guggenheim Fellowship 1945
Guggenheim Fellowship 1960
Rome Prize 1950
Risk Factors: Parkinson's
