Kenyon Hopkins

Emerging from a peripatetic Midwestern upbringing, Hopkins pursued formal music studies first at Oberlin College before completing a degree in composition at Temple University in 1933, later refining his craft through serial-music studies with Stefan Wolpe after World War II. He began his professional life arranging for prominent bandleaders such as Andre Kostelanetz and Paul Whiteman in the 1930s… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources