Field-Of-Study: Music Composition
Mason Bates
A composer residing in the San Francisco Bay area, Mason Bates received a Master’s degree in music composition from the Juilliard School in New York City. When he was only twenty years old, Mr. Bates was appointed as a Margaret Lee Crofts Fellow in Composition at the Tanglewood Music Festival; subsequently he has been honored with a Charles Ives Fellowship
Ernst Bacon
As published in the Foundation’s Report for 1939–40: BACON, ERNST: Appointed for creative work in musical composition; tenure, six months from May 15, 1939. Born May 26, 1898, in Chicago. Education: Northwestern University, 1915&