Biography
His training took place under the guidance of Apostel, Berio, and Milhaud. In the 1960s he co-founded the San Francisco New Music Ensemble at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. The 1970s brought the creation of his expansive city-wide event “Pachelbel Promenade,” commissioned for Graz, Austria. He later held the post of composer-in-residence at Northwestern University. Among his operas are From the Towers of the Moon, introduced in 1992 by Minnesota Opera, The Dracula Diary, and Night Passage (1995), the last written for the 180 male voices of the Seattle Men’s Chorus and addressing the trial and sentencing of Oscar Wilde. ~ “Blue” Gene Tyranny
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