Goddard Lieberson

Composer, author and recording executive Goddard Lieberson was educated at the University of Washington where he studied with George Frederick McKay, and with Bernard Rogers at the Eastman School of Music. He earned honorary degrees from Temple University and the Cleveland School of Music. Joining the Masterworks Department of Columbia Records in 1939, he was named department director, then vice-president of Masterworks Artists-and-Repertoire, executive vice-president in 1949, and from 1956 to 1966, president. Lieberson also became a vice-president of the CBS board of directors, the chairman of the CBS Foundation, a Yale University Library committee member, honorable curator of the Yale Coll. Literature American Musical Theatre, chairman of Music Advisory Comm. at Hopkins Center, Dartmouth, and in 1966, president of the CBS Columbia Group.