American avant-garde composer.
Born January 12th, 1926 in New York City. [ref]
Died September 3rd, 1987 at 61 years old in Buffalo (pancreatic cancer). [ref]
Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is just a passing shadow of a cloud. Yann Martel