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He studied music composition with Tibor Serly in New York City from 1942 to 1945 and then at the Juilliard School with Frederick Jacobi and Vittorio Giannini.
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Mark Bucci
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Influenced by Giacomo Puccini, his work is composed in a contemporary yet lyrical style which frequently employs marked rhythms and memorable harmonies and melodies. Born in Manhattan, Bucci was of Sicilian and Scottish ancestry. Bucci also studied composition under Aaron Copland at the Tanglewood Music Center during the summers.
Bucci"s first professional composition was written for the American Broadcasting Company television program The Motorola Television Hour for an adaptation of James Thurber"s The 13 Clocks in 1953.
The production starred Basil Rathbone as the evil Duke and garnered a considerable amount of national attention. Commissions for musical revues and operas followed, including the opera Tale for a Deaf Ear which premiered at the Tanglewood Music Festival in August 1957 and was later mounted at the New York City Opera in 1958.
Bucci also wrote music for two Broadway musical revues, Vintage "60 (1960) and New Faces of 1962 (1962) and is the author of a handful of plays.
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