Obituaries

[gabrielle]

Just discovered this guy--he was brilliant!  And it looks like we missed noting his passing on this obit thread, I checked back, so...

Quote:Richard Grayson (March 25, 1941 – July 3, 2016) was an American composer and pianist.

Born in New York on March 25, 1941 (Anon. 2016a; Anon. 2016b). He received his PhD in composition from UCLA in 1969—only the third person to receive a UCLA music Ph.D., after Michael Zearott and Edward Applebaum (Wager 1989)—and in the same year joined the music faculty of Occidental College, where he taught until his retirement in 2001. His 32 years of annual keyboard improvisation concerts, in which he improvised based on audience requests, were a highlight of that college's concert season (Tranquada 2016).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Gr...(composer)