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Luening

[ loo-ning ]

noun

  1. Otto, 1900–1996, U.S. composer, conductor, and flutist.


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He studied piano with Vladimir Ussachevsky and Jack Beeson and composition with Otto Luening.

In the years that followed, he was a vigorous presence on the East Coast new-music scene, which included composers like Otto Luening and Alan Hovhaness.

After receiving a bachelor’s degree from New York University, where he majored in music and minored in philosophy, he did graduate work at Columbia, studying under the composer Otto Luening.

When Mr. Clark founded the group, in 1987, it was precisely as you might expect — a group big enough to take on symphonic works by Copland, Cowell, Barber and Luening.

But in a preamble to his question Mr. Geffen noted that he had once visited the old Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, where Milton Babbitt, Otto Luening and other electronic music pioneers composed on the room-size RCA Mark II Synthesizer, which was state of the art when it was built in 1958.

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