Composer, songwriter ("Where Is the One?"), pianist, arranger and
teacher, educated at Columbia University and a student of Otto Luening,
George Antheil, and John Cage. He was a jazz pianist and later an
arranger for several dance orchestras. He wrote the stage background
score for "Red Roses For Me", and the stage score for the film version
of "George White's Scandals". From 1950, he taught at the Brook School
in Short Hills, New Jersey. Joining ASCAP in 1959, his other
popular-song compositions include "Star Burst", "Leave Us Leap", "Up
and Atom", "Bolero Boogie" and "El Mundo".
