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Applebaum, Mark
Brindamour, Lydia Winsor
Burtner, Matthew
Cage, John
Chen, Carolyn
Danahy, Alan
DeLio, Thomas
Donatoni, Franco
Duggan, Mark
Globokar, Vinko
Henderson, Henry
Johnston, Beverley
Klatzow, Peter
Kuester, Nicolee
Lewis, Peter Tod
Lewis, Stephen
Lucier, Alvin
Manoury, Philippe
Marceau, Thomas
Martirano, Salvatore
Meadowcroft, Thomas
Miki, Minoru
Moore, Christopher Trebue
Morris, Robert
Polansky, Larry
Reynolds, Roger
Rzewski, Frederic
Smith, Stuart Saunders
Smolka, Martin
Stasack, Jennifer
Stockhausen, Karlheinz
Tanaka, Toshimitsu
Tenney, James
Thomas, Andrew
Ung, Chinary
Williams, Jan
Wu, Yiheng Yvonne
Xenakis, Iannis
Zhou, Tiange
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Harvey Mason
Born in Atlantic City, New Jersey on February 22, 1947, Harvey William Mason was the oldest of eight children in a family surviving on welfare. His first musical instrument was flutophone followed by drums. He started formal orchestral drumming lessons at seven with Joseph Jacobs (violinist with the Philadelphia Orchestra) but only played in school as his family could not afford to buy him a set. During that period, Harvey primarily played on a practice pad and voraciously focused on sight reading music. In eighth grade, he joined the school dance band. At Atlantic City High School (which had an exceptional music theory program) Harvey began studying piano, playing it in church and even entered a talent show leading a jazz trio. At 14, he finally got his first drum kit: a 3-piece Gretsch.
Initially, Harvey was indulging in music purely for fun and side money, intending to become a lawyer to escape poverty. Then he read an interview in Downbeat Magazine with prolific Los Angeles session percussionist Larry Bunker that revealed the professional side of being a musician. A light went on in Harvey’s head. Getting deep into jazz giants such as Art Taylor, Buddy Rich and Louis Bellson, Harvey joined the American Legion Drum Corps followed by the more exacting
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