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- Died
- Composer, songwriter, and cellist in symphony orchestras throughout the USA, also with the New York Pro Musica Antiqua (viola da gamba). He joined ASCAP in 1955, and his compositions include the 1-act opera "Chanticleer"; also the "Woodwind Quintet and Sextet with Piano" and "Chamber Music"; also, musical settings to poems of Byron, Browning, Dowson, Teasdale and Blake. His song compositions include "Songs of Perfect Propriety" (Dorothy Parker poems), and "A Child's Garden of Verses" (Robert Louis Stevenson).- IMDb Mini Biography By: Hup234!
- SpousesMargie(1972 - 2014) (his death, 1 child)Shirley Perle (annulled)Mary Ann Fretz Giusti (divorced, 2 children)
- He taught composition at Black Mountain College, the New England Conservatory of Music, and Rutgers University.
- At 13, he was a professional church organist. He took up cello as a teenager, because his high school orchestra needed a cellist.
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