Other students included clarinetist Naomi Drucker and composers Michael Jeffrey Shapiro, Daniel Dorff, Leonard Lehrman, Herbert Deutsch, Joseph Pehrson, and Grammy-winner Jack Gallagher.
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He also composed for Hollywood (notably, the film score of They Came to Cordura, starring Gary Cooper and Rita Hayworth, 1959) and Broadway (Sing Out, Sweet Land, 1944, book by Walter Kerr).
In 1932 he was a member of the Young Composers' Group, which was founded by the composer Elie Siegmeister and which met regularly at the home of the composer Aaron Copland.
Elie Wiesel | Lolis Eric Elie | Jules-Élie Delaunay | Elie Siegmeister | Elie Saab | Élie Catherine Fréron | Élie Cartan | Walter Siegmeister | François Élie Roudaire | Elie Samaha | Élie-Miriam Delaborde | Élie Lescot | Élie Kakou | Elie Hobeika | Élie Delaunay | Elie A. F. La Vallette |
He premiered and made the first recordings of a number of modern works including symphonies by Allan Pettersson, who dedicated his Symphony No. 9 to him, as well as works by Michael Jeffrey Shapiro and Elie Siegmeister.