(b South Coffreyville, ok, 5 Sept 1914; d Claremont, ca, , 20 July 1984). American composer. He studied under Sowerby in Chicago (1935-6) and under Piston at Harvard (1937-8), later having contacts with Boulanger. He worked for the NBC, 1940-41, and for the US Army Air Force Picture Unit (1943-6); he later lectured and was composer-in-residence at Scripps College (1970-80). His work for radio, television and films influenced his other music, which includes orchestral, chamber and vocal compositions and uses jazz rhythms in a neo-classical style. His Second and Third Symphonies (1955-6) and the Symphony concertante (1952) are notable.
