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Composer, songwriter ("Everywhere I Go"), bassist, conductor and author, educated at the Metropolitan Music School in New York (where he was a music student of Wallingford Riegger, Johnny Mehegan, and Teddy Wilson), at Fisk University (studying with John W. Work) where he earned a Bachelor of Music degree, at Juilliard (where he studied with Peter Wilhousky, Peter Mennin, Norman Lloyd, Henry Brant, and Margaret Hillis), and at Columbia Teachers College (studying with Murphy Church), earning a Master of Arts degree. He served in the US Army Special Services, played double bass in the Suburban Symphony in Rockland County, and was music director in summer theaters, and music director and advisor for the Rockland County Playhouse in 1964. He wrote the stage scores for "The Beauty Part" and "Violetta" (adaptation of "Le Mal Coeur"). Hhis other popular-song compositions include "This Love is True Love".
