Lawrence Schulman

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Lawrence Schulman, a graduate of Stony Brook University, the Sorbonne and CREAR, a school for film and video studies in Gouvieux, France, is an award-winning music producer, critic and translator who has produced and compiled numerous CD sets devoted to Judy Garland in the past three decades. A collector and audiophile, Schulman has worked with such distinguished mastering engineers as Robert Parker, Jon M. Samuels, Gary Galo, Peter Rynston, Robin Cherry, Peter Reynolds, Nick Dellow, and Richard Moore. He has presented his talk on Garland, “Moments of Magic,” in New York, Boston, and various venues in Maine, where he resides.

Schulman lived in Paris for decades, working as a teacher and translator, and he continues to translate for the French website OpusHD.net, which specializes in classical high-resolution recordings. During his Paris years he also worked for French Public Radio as a producer and host, and provided sound recording and book reviews for the ARSC Journal. His translation from the French of Bertrand Tessier’s Judy Garland: Splendor and Downfall of a Legend, for which he also provided a Foreword, was published by BearManor Media in March 2023. His 2-volume book on Judy Garland, entitled Garland: That’s Beyond Entertainment - Reflections on Judy Garland, was published by BearManor Media in 2023, and his book FREE: Words on Music by a Hi-Def Critic in an MP3 World was published by BearManor Media in 2024. His book Peter Allen: Somebody's Angel - The Boy from Oz in the Key of Camp was published by BearManor in 2025, and his next book for BearManor, called UNFETTERED: Words on Music by a Hi-Def Critic in an MP3 World, Volume II will be published in early 2026. His latest CD box-set, called Judy Garland: A Celebration, was released by Acrobat/Trapeze in 2024.

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