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| | Leslie Bassett Festival of Music |
 | | His early music training in Fresno was on piano, trombone, cello and other instruments, and he spent 38 months in army bands during World War II as trombonist, arranger and composer. |
 | | At Michigan he became chairman of composition, the Albert A. Stanley Distinguished University Professor of Music, and the 1984 Henry Russel Lecturer, the university's highest faculty honor. |
 | | Music for Cello and Piano was written for Fred Dempster and Bob Bennett, faculty members and friends at my undergraduate college in California, Fresno State, for concerts when I returned as guest composer. |
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