Education
He began his musical studies at the Peabody Conservatory, where he studied piano, cello, and composition with Elliott Carter.
He began his musical studies at the Peabody Conservatory, where he studied piano, cello, and composition with Elliott Carter.
In the early 1950s he and his wife, pianist Jho Waxman, founded a music school in Nyack, New York, and around the same time he became assistant conductor of the nearby Hudson Valley Orchestra. He was also a music editor at Galaxy Music in New York, a publishing firm that focused on American music. When Galaxy was sold, in 1990, he and his family moved to Boca Raton, Florida, which remains their home.