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Biographical Notes
Abraham A. Schwadron, musician, composer-arranger, scholar, and educator, was born in Brooklyn, New York, on December 25, 1925, where he later attended Boys' High School. He received his bachelor's degree from Rhode Island College, his master's degree from the University of Connecticut at Storrs, and his doctorate from Boston University. He came to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1969, serving as Chair of the Department of Music from 1980 to 1983. The "Chad Gadya" was the focus of ten years of his research and travel to Jewish communities around the world. He died on September 23, 1987.