Background
John Anthony Lennon was born in Greensboro, North Carolina and raised in Mill Valley, California.
John Anthony Lennon was born in Greensboro, North Carolina and raised in Mill Valley, California.
He received M.M. and Doctorate.M.A. degrees in music composition from the University of Michigan, where he studied composition with Leslie Bassett and William Bolcom.
Early life and education He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in liberal arts from the University of San Francisco, first majoring in English and minoring in philosophy, later adding music courses. Academic career Lennon is a professor of composition at Emory University in Atlanta. He formerly taught at the University of Tennessee (starting in 1977), and taught as a guest composer at Northwestern University in the spring of 1998.
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