Alvin Lucier (*1931), composer. He was educated in Nashua, New Hampshire, public and parochial schools, the Portsmouth Abbey School, Yale, and Brandeis and spent two years in Rome on a Fulbright Scholarship. He taught at Brandeis University and Wesleyan, from which he retired in 2011. Lucier was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music and received an Honorary Doctorate of Arts from the University of Plymouth, England. Two of his previous books are available from the Wesleyan University Press: Chambers, Scores and Interviews, with Douglas Simon (1980) and Music109: Notes on Experimental Music (2012). His prose scores and interviews were published in English and German: Reflexionen/Reflexions (MusikTexte 1995, 2005).

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