Posterity should be grateful to Babbitt for his resolute idealism, which he never compromised. Milton Byron Babbitt, composer and teacher: born Philadelphia 10 May 1916; Professor of Music ...

Milton Babbitt, who died on January 29 at 94, produced some of his best-known music electronically, using the gargantuan, rudimentary computers of punch-card antiquity. Since there is no action ...

Milton Byron Babbitt was born on May 10, 1916, in Philadelphia and grew up in Jackson, Mississippi. He began studying violin at four. ''By the time I was eight,'' he said, ''I realised the violin ...

He’s even more certain that most of the audience isn’t familiar with the work of MacArthur-winning composer and Jackson native Milton Babbitt. The crux of Mississippi’s proclamation to be ...

The American composer and teacher Milton Babbitt died Saturday, Jan. 29 at age 94. For years, New York-based journalist and filmmaker Robert Hilferty had been constructing a documentary on Babbitt.

The American composer and teacher Milton Babbitt died Saturday, Jan. 29 at age 94. For years, New York-based journalist and filmmaker Robert Hilferty had been constructing a documentary on Babbitt.

It’s ironic that the composer Milton Babbitt, who died in a Princeton hospital yesterday at the age of 94, shared his surname with Sinclair Lewis’s archetypal emblem of American narrow-mindedness.

Who's cooking: Judy Babbitt, accessibility compliance manager for the city, and husband Milton, an architect. What's cooking: Judy cooks dinner about five nights a week, experimenting with fun or ...

Part of the development of this music stemmed from Babbitt's own fascinations with math and music theory, leading to the development of a particular use of the 12-tone scale in music. This idea ...

Milton Babbitt, a composer who used his knack for mathematics to create a modern musical language that was elegantly complex, fearlessly dissonant and so dense that even critics sometimes ...