Quincy Porter

[2] Born in New Haven, Connecticut, he went to Yale University where his teachers included Horatio Parker and David Stanley Smith.

In 1923 Porter joined the faculty of the Cleveland Institute of Music where he was later appointed head of the Theory Department.

In 1931 Porter returned to the United States, first rejoining the faculty at the Cleveland Institute of Music, then teaching at Vassar, where he was appointed a professor in 1932.

Music historian Nicholas Tawa calls the piece, "affectively compelling, orchestrally luminous, and contrapuntally active"; cooperative rather than competitive.

Porter also served, from 1958 until his death, as chairman of the board of directors of the American Music Center, which he had founded with Howard Hanson and Aaron Copland in 1939.