Word: milhaud
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Born in Seattle, he started musical studies at the University of Washington at eleven, later worked with Darius Milhaud, both at Mills College and in Paris, and then earned his doctorate at Stanford. (On the other side of the lectern, he has taught at the University of Michigan since 1973.) But something about conventional composing left him dissatisfied. "I got tired of the aesthetics and doctrinaireness of it," he recalls. Two failed marriages made everything worse. "My personal upheavals made me question everything...