Morten lauridsen biography of george michael
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Morten lauridsen biography of george michael
Morten Lauridsen
American composer
Morten Johannes Lauridsen III[1] (born February 27, 1943) is an American composer and teacher. A National Medal of Arts recipient (2007),[2] he was composer-in-residence of the Los Angeles Master Chorale from 1994 to 2001,[3] and is professor emeritus of composition at the USC Thornton School of Music, where he taught for fifty-two years until his retirement in 2019.[4]
Biography
A native of the Pacific Northwest, Lauridsen worked as a Forest Servicefirefighter and lookout on an isolated tower near Mount St.
Helens. He attended Whitman College for 2 years, before traveling south to study composition at the University of Southern California with Ingolf Dahl, Halsey Stevens, Robert Linn, and Harold Owen.[5] He began teaching at USC in 1967.[4]
In 2006, Lauridsen was named an "American Choral Master" by the National Endowment for the Arts.
In 2007, he received the National Medal of