Title Page | Collection Summary | History of the Collection | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Biographical Note
Date | Event |
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1912 October 10 | Born in Fullerton, California |
Circa 1923 | Began playing saxophone in junior high school band |
Circa 1927 | Switched from saxophone to bassoon |
Circa 1932 | Joined the 63rd Coast Artillery Band |
1936 | Performed on his first movie soundtrack, The Go Getter, composed by Bernhard Kaun |
Late 1930s | Founded the Los Angeles Woodwind Quintet (later Los Angeles Woodwinds) |
1945 | Treatise, Notes on the Bassoon Reed, published |
1968 | Treatise, Measuring the Conical Bore of the Bassoon: A Clinical Report, published |
1978 August | Co-hosted the International Double Reed Society (IDRS) conference with Ray Nowlin in Los Angeles |
1987 | Book, Remembrance of Lawrence Morton, published |
2001 February 16 | Died in Sherman Oaks, California |