Robert Freeman

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Robert Freeman (pastor)

Robert Freeman (born 1878, Edinburgh, Scotland) was a Scottish-American clergyman.

After engaging in mission work in Pennsylvania and New York for four years, he was ordained in the Baptist ministry in 1900; thereafter he held various pastorates until 1910. He was moderator of the Synod of California in 1920-21.

During the War he directed the first expeditionary division of the Y.M.C.A. and in 1917-18 was director of religious work in France.

Other offices which he filled are director of the San Francisco Theological Seminary and trustee of Occidental College.

He is the author of The Hour of Prayer (1914) and The Land I Live In (1921).

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 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Thurston, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "^{article name needed}". New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead. 

Robert Freeman (musician)

Robert Freeman (born August 26, 1935, in Rochester, New York) is an American pianist, music educator, and musicologist who is known for leading some of the finest music schools in the United States. Freeman is board chair of the Institute for Music and Brain Science at UCLA, and serves on the board of the National Center for Human Performance at the Texas Medical Center in Houston.

Life and career

Born into a family of musicians, Freeman grew up in Needham, Massachusetts and attended Milton Academy. His father was a double bass player in the Boston Symphony Orchestra, ultimately principal bass.. In his youth he studied the oboe with Fernand Gillet in addition to studying the piano with Gregory Tucker. He went on concurrently to earn a Bachelor of Music degree with highest honors from Harvard and a diploma in piano performance from the Longy School of Music in 1957. He also studied privately with Artur Balsam and Rudolf Serkin during the summers of 1955 and 1956. In 1957–58 he held one of Harvard's Sheldon Travelling Fellowships. He went on to pursue graduate studies at Princeton where he was awarded both a MFA and PhD in musicology. A Fulbright Scholarship enabled him to pursue further studies in Vienna in 1960–1962. He was also awarded a Martha Baird Rockefeller Foundation Award in 1962 and later an honorary doctorate from Hamilton College. In 1984 he was awarded Rochester's Civic Medal, in connection with his work on downtown development.