Biography

Composer, conductor, arranger, songwriter and arranger, educated at the University of Pennsylvania and a student of Ernst Toch, Pietro Floridia and Joseph Schillinger. He was an arranger for the orchestras of Fletcher Henderson and Andre Kostelanetz and worked in the music deparments of film studios for seven years, and arranged for Broadway musicals. Joining ASCAP in 1959, he was a life member and former president of the American Society of Music Arrangers. His popular-song and instrumental compositions include "Over the Top", "Melon Street Stomp", "Hurricane Rag", "Celestial Rag" and "A Sunday Tune".
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