NIXON, ROGER

ROGER NIXON (Born in Tulare, California, 1921) Roger Nixon, a professor of music at San Francisco State University, received most of his professional training at the University of California at Berkeley, where his principal teacher was Roger Sessions. He also worked with Arthur Bliss, Ernest Bloch, Charles Cushing, and Frederick Jacobi, and in the summer of 1948 studied privately with Arnold Schoenberg. He was the recipient of the first Phelan Award in music composition. Among his numerous…