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3 unusual facts about Jonathan Elkus


Jonathan Elkus

They published books and music by varying composers including Elinor Armer, Cushing, and Ali Akbar Khan.

In 2002, he was presented with the Edwin Franko Goldman Memorial Citation of the American Bandmasters Association in recognition of his contribution to bands and band music in America.

The son of Albert Elkus, he studied composition at University of California, Berkeley (BA 1953) with Charles Cushing and William Denny, at Stanford University (MA 1957) with Ernst Bacon and Leonard Ratner, and at Mills College (1957) with Darius Milhaud.



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