William Schuman has been played on NTS in shows including Keaton Henson, featured first on 9 November 2014. Songs played include American Festival Overture, Symphony No. 3 and Adagio For Strings.

William Howard Schuman (August 4, 1910–February 15, 1992) was an American composer and music administrator.

Born in the Bronx in New York City to Samuel and Rachel Schuman, Schuman was named after the twenty-seventh U.S. president, William Howard Taft (although his family preferred to call him Bill). Schuman played the violin and banjo as a child, but his overwhelming passion was baseball. While still in high school, he formed a dance band, "Billy Schuman and…