Lyndol Mitchell

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Lyndol Mitchell

Biography

Lyndol Mitchell (16 February 1923, Itta Bena, Miss. – 19 February 1963, Rochester, N.Y) was an American composer, educator and conductor.

In September 1941 he entered Western Kentucky State College on a music scholarship. However, in January of 1943 he enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Force and served in the European theater of operations as a member of the Military Intelligence Division of the 394th Bomber Group of the 9th Air Force. After the war, he returned to WKSC to complete his bachelor's degree. In 1949 he entered the Eastman School of Music where he earned a master's degree in composition. Studying with Howard Hanson, and began work a doctorate as a teaching fellow.

Mitchell was a professor of composition at Eastman from 1951 to 1963 and also led the choir at Christ Church in Rochester (New York). He was also active in church music and served as composer, conductor, and consultant on music to the Informational Films Division of the Eastman Kodak Company. He composed and recorded approximately 30 motion picture film scores.


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