Composers in the graduate recital: Norman Dello-Joio; Igor Stravingsky; Johannes Hanseen; H. Owen Reed; Richard Wagner

Composers in the Ph.D. recital: Morton Gould; Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy; Darius Milhaud; Leonard Bernstein; Vincent Persichetti; Percy Aldridge Grainger; Morton Gould; Kenneth J. Alford

Morton Gould (1913-1996) was a significant American composer, conductor and pianist. Perhaps the most defining characteristic of his compositions is his free use of folk melodies, spirituals, jazz and popular styles in the ...