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Maurice Lawrence Goldman, noted composer, arranger, conductor and performer, primarily of Yiddish and Hebraic music, was was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on April 4, 1910 to Marcus and Sarah Goldman. Shortly thereafter, he moved with his family to Cleveland, Ohio where his father worked as a rabbi and principal of the Knesseth Israel Hebrew School of the Knesseth Israel Congregation. Goldman was a graduate of Glenville High School in Cleveland, and received a B.S. degree from the Western Reserve University School of Education in 1935.

He was prominent in Cleveland and Akron, Ohio as a choral conductor, composer, arranger, performer, music educator, opera director and radio personality in the mid 1930's until his induction into the U.S. Army in 1942. Of the many positions he held during this time the most notable were as director of the Euclid Avenue Temple Choir, the Cleveland Jewish Singing Society, the Western Reserve University Choir, the Opera Chorus of the WPA Federal Music Project for Cuyahoga County, and the Akron Opera Company; as cantor at the Fairmont Temple and Temple on the Heights; as head of the Cleveland Institute of Music Opera department and the Cleveland Music School Settlement Choral programs and as radio host for the programs "Classics in Wax" and "Operama." In 1941, Goldman moved to Los Angeles and worked in the film industry arranging music scores for several westerns and dramas before his induction into the Army.

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