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Mel Powell (born Melvin Epstein) (February 12, 1923 – April 24, 1998) was an American Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, and the founding dean of the music department at the California Institute of the Arts.
Pulitzer Prize-winning composer/pianist/educator Mel Powell (1923-98) talks about his early years and jazz experiences in this relaxed 1983 interview, with a...
Apr 27, 1998 · Mel Powell, a composer who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1990 and was the founding dean of the school of music at the California Institute of the Arts, died on Friday at his home in Sherman Oaks,...
With Esfahani touring Recitative and Toccata Percossa and my post today, there’s more 2020 interest in the compositions of Mel Powell than could have been reasonably expected at the time of Powell’s passing.
Mel Powell was a jazz pianist, arranger and composer who studied with Paul Hindemith at Yale. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1990 for his nontonal concerto Duplicates.
Dec 14, 2021 · Listen to music from Mel Powell like Stompin' At The Savoy, What's New & more. Find the latest tracks, albums, and images from Mel Powell.
Born 12 February 1923 in New York, Mel Powell began his musical life as a prodigious jazz artist, working as pianist and arranger with the Benny Goodman Orchestra and later, the Glenn Miller Army Air Force Band.
