Murray Harold Blumenfeld (October 15, 1923 – November 1, 2014) was an American classical composer.
His family traveled widely, especially during the Depression, when his father sought work in retail.
Near the end of his high school years, the family settled in St.
During the summers of 1949-52 he attended Tanglewood Music Center, where he trained as a conductor with Robert Shaw, Leonard Bernstein,[2] and Boris Goldovsky.
[4] One of his students at Washington University was African American composer John Elwood Price.