Russell Garcia(1916-2011)
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- Composer
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Bandleader, conductor, trumpeter, composer, arranger and songwriter,
educated at San Francisco State Teachers College and in private music
study with Edmund Ross, Ernst Toch, Albert Coates, Ernst Krenek and
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco. He was a trumpeter in dance bands and
composed, conducted and arranged for record companies and for NBC,
where he was on the staff for four years. Joining ASCAP in 1957, his
popular-song compositions include the instrumental "Adventures in
Emotion".
