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Sherman Oaks, California, U.S. Occupation (s) Composer, music educator, pianist. Years active. 1939–1998. Mel Powell (born Melvin Epstein) (February 12, 1923 – April 24, 1998) was an American Pulitzer Prize -winning composer, and the founding dean of the music department at the California Institute of the Arts. [1]
Apr 27, 1998 · Mel Powell, a composer who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1990 and was the founding dean of the school of music at the California Institute of the Arts, died on Friday at his home in Sherman Oaks,...
Mel Powell was an American Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, and the founding dean of the music department at the California Institute of the Arts. He served as a music educator for over 40 years, first at Mannes College of Music and Queens College, then Yale University, and finally at CalArts.
Apr 25, 1998 · Mel Powell, Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and founding dean of the CalArts School of Music in Valencia, died Friday. He was 75. Powell, who began his long career as jazz pianist for Benny...
1923 - 1998. American. Summary. Biography. Performances. Photos. Discography. Born 12 February 1923 in New York, Mel Powell began his musical life as a prodigious jazz artist, working as pianist and arranger with the Benny Goodman Orchestra and later, the Glenn Miller Army Air Force Band.
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Mel Powell was a jazz pianist, arranger and composer who studied with Paul Hindemith at Yale. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1990 for his nontonal concerto Duplicates.
That netted me an enormous crack with a ruler on my hands and the horrified look on my teachers facing Melvin. What in the world are you doing? And I turned rather heartily and said, ...
