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Luening

American  
[loo-ning] / ˈlu nɪŋ /

noun

  1. Otto, 1900–1996, U.S. composer, conductor, and flutist.


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He studied piano with Vladimir Ussachevsky and Jack Beeson and composition with Otto Luening.

From Washington Post • Mar. 13, 2020

After receiving a bachelor’s degree from New York University, where he majored in music and minored in philosophy, he did graduate work at Columbia, studying under the composer Otto Luening.

From New York Times • Feb. 15, 2015

No doubt Mr. Beeson received encouragement to experiment further along those lines from Luening, who taught composition to second-year Columbia graduate students and was a pioneer in developing techniques that mix electronics and live performance.

From New York Times • Jul. 9, 2010

Last week, in Manhattan's fashionable Museum of Modern Art, still another kind of composition for tape recorder was unwound: Low Speed, Invention and Fantasy in Space by Otto Luening and Sonic Contours by Vladimir Ussachevsky.

From Time Magazine Archive

Says Composer Otto Luening of the Columbia" Princeton Electronic Music Center: "It is fine to explore outer space in sound.

From Time Magazine Archive