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William Thomas McKinley R.A.P (BMOP) 

    William Thomas McKinley (b. 1938)

    Richard Stoltzman, clarinet
    Nancy Zeltsman, marimba

    Boston Modern Orchestra Project
    Gil Rose, conductor

The composer and New Kensington native William Thomas ("Tom") McKinley died on Feb. 3 at the age of 76. Born on Dec. 9, 1938, Mr. McKinley is best known for concert music composed in the jazz idiom but had forays into neo-classicism, atonality and electronic music. He attended the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University) in 1956, where he met his longtime friend and colleague David Stock, a local composer and the founder of the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, who describes him as "one of ourmost important Pittsburgh artists of any kind."

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