David Raksin
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Emerging from a Philadelphia household where his father conducted an orchestra, he began playing in dance bands while still in high school and later pursued composition under Harl McDonald at the University of Pennsylvania, followed by studies with Isadore Freed in New York and Arnold Schoenberg in Los Angeles; a stint as an arranger for Harms/Chappell rounded out his early training. His first…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources