Fredric Myrow was an American composer. He studied with Darius Milhaud and attended the University of Southern California's Thornton School of Music. As a freshman, Dmitri Shostakovich praised his talent and encouraged the Young Musicians Foundation to commission Myrow's "Symphonic Variations," which was performed by the Los Angeles Philharmonic. He received multiple Fulbright, Rockefeller, and Guggenheim grants, and became a resident composer at the New York Philharmonic under Leonard Bernstein. Myrow scored numerous films, and he also composed for theater, including the stage musical Sure Feels Good at the Los Angeles Actor's Theatre. Myrow died of a heart attack in 1999, at his Hollywood Hills home.
