Background
Vincent was born on May 17, 1902 in Birmingham,
AL; diploma from New England Conservatory of
Music; BS and MA from George Peabody College;
studied with Walter Piston at Harvard Univ.,
1933-35, where he received the John Knowles Paine
Travelling Fellowship for two years' study with
Nadia Boulanger; Ph.D, Cornell Univ., 1942; head
of music dept. at Western Kentucky State Univ.,
1937-45, then succeeded Arnold Schoenberg as
professor of composition at UCLA, 1946-69;
conducted orchestras throughout the US and South
America; director, Huntington Hartford Foundation,
1952-65; wrote The diatonic modes in modern music
(1951); composed many works, including: Three
jacks ballet (1941), Primeval void (opera buffa,
1969-71), Symphony in D (1954), Stabat mater
(1970), Three Grecian songs, and two string
quartets; he died on Jan. 21, 1977 in Santa
Monica, CA.
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