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Mel Powell

Jazz pianist and composer. Won the 1990 Pulitzer Prize in music for his composition, "Duplicates: A Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra".
Inducted into the Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame in 1997.
Stride pianist and arranger. Began as a teenager at Nick's in New York before joining the band of Mugsy Spanier. With Benny Goodman from 1941, for who he wrote several seminal tracks, including "The Earl", "Clarinet a la King" and "Mission to Moscow". Member of Glenn Miller's Army Band during World War II.
Turned to classical music in the 1980's, taking over from Paul Hindemith as Professor of Composition at Yale. Subsequently headed the California Institute of the Arts.
Buried with wife, actress Martha Scott Powell, at Jamesport Masonic Cemetery, Jamesport, Daviess County, Missouri.
He was an accomplished pianist and composer who wrote "Mission to Moscow" for Benny Goodman.
Husband of actress Martha Scott from 1946 until his death on April 24, 1998.
He later was the Dean of the School of Music at the California Institute of Arts (CalArts), in Valencia, CA.

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