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Aaron Copland
American composer, composition teacher, writer, and conductor
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Ned Rorem
American composer
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Harold Shapero
American composer
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Morton Gould
American composer, conductor, arranger, and pianist
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Henry Cowell
American composer, music theorist, pianist, teacher, publisher, and impresario
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Jerome Moross
American composer; film score composer
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Lewis Spratlan
American music academic and composer of contemporary classical music
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Marc Blitzstein
American composer, lyricist, and librettist
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Ferde Grofé
American composer, arranger, pianist and instrumentalist
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Deems Taylor
American composer, music critic, and promoter of classical music
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Igor Stravinsky
Russian composer, pianist and conductor
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Lou Harrison
American composer
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John Adams
American composer
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Marvin Hamlisch
American composer and conductor (1944-2012)
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John Corigliano
American composer
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Nadia Boulanger
French musician and teacher
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Eugene Aynsley Goossens
English conductor and composer
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Elliott Carter
American composer
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Johnny Green
American conductor, arranger, composer, pianist; Harvard AB 1928, achieved early fame as a songwriter and orchestra leader in the 1920s and 1930s
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Christopher Rouse
American composer
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Frederick Stock
German composer
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Richard Rodgers
American composer of songs and Broadway musicals
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Elmer Bernstein
American composer and conductor (1922-2004)
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Steven Richman
American conductor
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Paul Romero
American computer and video game music composer and classical pianist
