According to the Internet source given below, George Crumb is an American composer born in Charleston, West Virginia. He studied composition under Ross Lee Finney at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He has traveled abroad extensively for the State Department and other organizations to Asia, Australia and Europe his music has been performed by all the major American orchestras. Amongst his honours are the 1968 Pulitzer Prize and the 1995
MacDowell medal..