- Won the Pulitzer Prize in Music in 1952 for his "Symphony Concertante".
- Studied the violin at the Eastman School of Music and was the soloist at the premiere of his First Violin Concerto in Chicago in 1938.
- Left his teaching position in 1940 to take a job with NBC Radio as a composer for radio dramas.
- Born into a musical family. His mother was a concert singer who had studied with the fabled Ernestine Schumann-Heink. His family formed a chamber music ensemble that toured the U.S. Midwest during the period 1930-1937.
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