Julian Livingston Julian Livingston was educated as both a music composer and engineer. From 1950-1955 he studied composition at Indiana University with Bernhard Heiden (1910-2000) and Thomas Beversdorf (1924-1981), piano with Sydney Foster and Don Rand, and conducting with Ernst Hoffman. At every spare moment he followed opera direction at the rehearsals of Hans Busch and Ross Allen. During the 1954 school year he collaborated with Robert Aichele in the writing of the musical comedy, Welcome to France. It won the yearly prize for best musical and was produced as that year's Jordan River Review under the auspices of the drama department at Indiana University. Livingston served as the music director for that production. During this period the American Quintet premiered his woodwind quintet. He received the Bachelor of Music Degree from IU in 1955. From 1955-1957 he was an army officer in Korea. After military duty he reentered the education system in electrical engineering with the thought of automating the production of scores and compositions. Unforseen was the fact that he would graduate cum laude at Purdue University. The job market for engineers was very attractive in the 1960s so he worked for Bell Telephone Laboratories during this period in the research of data transmission via modems. A necessary ancillary to this work was the constant employment of computers to exercise, collect, and analyse data from modem testing. Coding for computers became as ordinary as writing English. In the mid-1960s he obtained his masters degree in electrical engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn. However, music still occupied his mind much of the time. During the period 1966-1976 he composed many pieces for piano, voice, chamber groups, and orchestra. He founded the Elysium Chorale in 1976 and served as its conductor until 1984. http://home.bluemarble.net/~julian/opera.html

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