Other courses included psychology, English, history, theory, ensemble, chorus, sight singing, keyboard harmony, and dictation.
He studied piano with Darrell Peter, dictation with Ruth Van Doren, and theory with Ludmila Ulehla.
He moved back to Mobile, Alabama, where he worked in the shipyards, the merchant marine, and played piano in bars and cocktail lounges.
In the 1960s, he returned to New York, where, in 1966, he became musical director for the Paper Bag Players, where he played electric harpsichord, sang, and also acted .
In 1998, his friend, Matthew de Lacey Davidson, partially re-recorded a new version of that album for Capstone Records, which was released in 2000.