Lives in Chicago, may or may not be dead. Was a student of Boulanger and turned out quasi-Stravinsky/Hindemith/atonal-Copland music until about 1980. In the eighties messed around with equal-tempered scales having more than 12 notes, most recently has been writing in pre-1925 idioms -- a symphony that sounds like Sibelius mixed with Szymanowski, a Rachmaninoffian Piano Sonata, and a string quartet like Verdi's are the most notable. Taught for many years at the University of Chicago. Records with the Chicago-based Cedille label.

Blackwood Is Not Dead. Yet. Add an ersatz-Schubertian Sonata for Cello and Piano to your list. Records as a pianist. Should Cedille be spelled Çedille? The firm is owned and operated by the son of a supreme court justice.

Shouldn't mind if some of those earlier works were recorded, though, like the 2nd symphony (available on tape at NYPL- I mean commercially recorded...) and the 3rd... et