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 | | DONALD MARTINO (1931 - 2005) : Born in Plainfield, New Jersey, May 16, 1931, he began music lessons at nine learning to play the clarinet, saxophone, and oboe and started composing at 15. |
 | | Martino has taught at The Third Street Music School Settlement in New York, Princeton, Yale, The New England Conservatory of Music, where he was chairman of the composition department from 1969-1979, Brandeis, where he was Irving Fine Professor of Music, and Harvard, where he is the Walter Bigelow Rosen Professor of Music, Emeritus. |
 | | According to the New Grove, "Martino's music has been characterized as expansive, dense, lucid, dramatic, romantic, all of which are applicable. |
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