biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1899–1984)
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| biography:
| Composer, born in New York City, USA. He studied under Ernest Bloch, and became a fellow of the American Academy at Rome (1922–5), later teaching at Harvard, Princeton, and California universities. His music assimilates Romantic and popular American idioms, and includes symphonies, an oratorio, two operas, and a variety of chamber, piano, orchestral, and theatre music. From the 1960s he concentrated mainly on sacred vocal music. |
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