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| Moscow native emigrated to the United States in 1988. Though a star pupil at the well-known Moscow Concervatory, he left rather than join the Soviet composers union. Living with relatives in the city's Jewish community, he got by playing klezmer (a traditional European Jewish music discouraged in his homeland as part of many years of systematic suppression of Russian Jewish culture. He showed some of his student work to the University of Chicago's Ralph Shapey, and eventually got a Ph.D. from the university. Says the Chicago Reader's Ted Shen of Levinson's artistic growth: "In Moscow, though Levinson had been exposed to modernism's 12-tone techniques, he'd never used them; his early style was heavily influenced by the more conservative output of Prokofiev and Shostakovich. But under the tutelage of SHapey, Shulamit Ran, and John Eaton his timidity evaporated."
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