Ellen adler biography

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Ellen Adler (January 31, 1927- September 20, 2019) was an American painter. Daughter of Horace Eliascheff and renowned acting teacher Stella Adler, Ellen grew up in the heart of the theater world.

When her mother was acting, or when her stepfather Harold Clurman was directing, Ellen spent her early days in rehearsal, her evenings in Broadway backstage dressing rooms. Ellen is the lone child pictured in an iconic photo of the Group Theater taken at one of their summer retreats in upstate New York.

After studying Russian Literature at Bard College, Ellen moved to Paris where she was at home in the upper echelons of the music, literary and philosophy worlds.

Through her partner, composer and conductor Renee Leibowtiz, she met Arnold Schoeberg, the highly influential composer and conductor who developed the twelve-tone technique. Ellen was cast as the speaker in the 1950 recording of Schoenberg’s Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte and in his Pie