Elkus "studied composition with Cushing and Denny at the University of California, Berkeley (BA 1953), with Bacon and Ratner at Stanford University (MA 1957), and with Milhaud at Mills College (1957). He taught at Lehigh University from 1957 to 1973 and became director of music at Cape Cod Academy in 1979. In 1993 he was appointed Davis Lecturer in Music and Director of Bands at University of California, Davis. He has been guest conductor with concert bands throughout the USA and in 1998 was made arranger to the United States, Marine Band. As an editor, Elkus has been closely associated with the music of Charles Ives...Elkus's musical vocabulary draws on several 20th-century idioms, resulting in a highly individual style with strong definition of pitch and chord centres." (Richard Swift, Grove Music Online.)
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