Born Phoenixville, PA, 1920. Graduated Ursinus
College, PA, 1941, B.S. major chemistry. Award for distinguished
service to College, 1941. Attended Cape Cod Institute of Music,
summers, 1939-41, piano major, and accompanist to ballet.
Mass. Institute of Technology, 1941-46, Ph.D,~ major,
organic chemistry. Research Associate, Sugar Research Foundation
at MIT, summers 47-49, Research Associate at Aurther D. Little,
Inc., summer 1946.
Studied composition with Walter Piston at
Harvard Univ., spring, 1946.
Yale School of Music, 1947-48,
B.Mus., composition, M.Mus. composition with Paul Hindemith,
1950-51.
Professor theory-composition, School of Music, Syracuse University,
1951-85. Yearly recitals of solo and chamber works during each
of these years. Composition and production of Opera, "The
Postponment", 1959; performance of Symphony, 1961; of Symphony
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Seminar with Robert Moog, summer, 1966, to study
electronic music. Founded and directed Electronic Studio of
School of Music, Syracuse University, 1966-85. Began production
and presentation of multi-media events combining electronic
music with visual and dramatic arts from 1966 thru 1976. Events
were presented in Syracuse and at various colleges in the Northeastern
US: at Composers' Forum, the Gate Theatre, The Kitchen, Automation
House in NYC, and at four of Charlottte Moorman's Festivals
of the Avant Garde, also in NYC.
Began a series of Electronic Symphonies, first using only analog
electronic sounds as in Symphony 1 in 1976, and gradually adding
sounds from the many new digital keyboards as they came on the
market. Latest Symphony is #540. A selection of these is on
line at Ampcast.com, Download. com, Garage Band.com, Newmusicjukebox.com,
and on this web site.
Long time collector of world wide Lepidoptera,
1981 to present. |
