In 1987, the Arnold Schoenberg Institute in Los Angeles commissioned the settings of the remaining twenty-nine poems that Schoenberg had neglected, using his original scoring ( Sprechstimme optional ), by sixteen American composers: Milton Babbitt, Leslie Bassett, Susan Morton Blaustein, Paul Cooper, Miriam Gideon, John Harbison, Donald Harris, Richard Hoffmann, Karl Kohn, William Kraft, Ursula Mamlok, Steve Mosco, Marc Neikrug, Mel Powell, Roger Reynolds, and Leonard Rosenman.

Once in the U. S. he taught primarily at Yale University where he had such notable students as Lukas Foss, Graham George, Norman Dello Joio, Mel Powell, Harold Shapero, Hans Otte, Ruth Schonthal, and Oscar-winning film director George Roy Hill.

* 1990: Mel D. Powell, Duplicates: A Concerto

*" Every Dog Has His Day " by Mel Powell ( Doctor Who Annual 1981 )-2nd incarnation

Subsequently, Blau was instrumental in hiring a number of professionals like Mel Powell ( dean of the School of Music ), Paul Brach ( dean of the School of Art ), Alexander Mackendrick ( dean of the School of Film / Video ), sociologist Maurice Stein ( dean of Critical Studies ), and Richard Farson ( dean of the School of Design ; now incorporated in the Art school ) as well other influential program heads and teachers such as Allan Kaprow, Bella Lewitzky, Michael Asher, Jules Engel, John Baldessari, Judy Chicago, James Hurtak, Ravi Shankar, Max Kozloff, Miriam Shapiro and Douglas Huebler, most of whom largely came from a counterculture and avant-garde side of the art world.

First to radio producer and announcer Carlton Alsop from 1940 to 1946, and then to jazz pianist and composer Mel Powell from 1946 until his death in 1998.

Per her last wishes she was interred next to her husband, Mel Powell, in the Masonic Cemetery in her native Jamesport.

Mel Powell as Dean, Subotnick as Associate Dean, and a team of four other pairs of artists carved out a new path of music education and created the now famous California Institute of the Arts.

Mel Powell ( born Melvin Epstein ) ( February 12, 1923 – April 24, 1998 ) was an American jazz pianist, composer of classical music, and music educator.

Mel Powell was born Melvin D. Epstein on February 12, 1923 in The Bronx, New York City to Russian Jewish parents, Milton Epstein and Mildred Mark Epstein ,.

Newly-named, the teenage Mel Powell became a pianist and arranger for Benny Goodman in 1941.

Near wars end Mel Powell was stationed in Paris, France where he played with Django Reinhardt then returned for a brief stint in Benny Goodman's band again after being discharged from the military.

Mel Powell had a major health crisis in the late 1940s when he developed Muscular dystrophy.

Mel Powell had not completely turned his back on jazz music however.

In 1987 Mel Powell joined other music greats for a jazz festival on the cruise ship SS Norway playing alongside Benny Carter, Howard Alden, Milt Hinton, and Louie Bellson and others.

One performance has been documented on the CD release The Return of Mel Powell ( Chiaroscuro Records ).

In 1990 Mel Powell received his highest career achievement, the Pulitzer Prize in Music for his work Duplicates: A Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra.

Besides the Pulitzer, other awards and honors for Mel Powell include the Creative Arts Medal from Brandeis University, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an honorary life membership in the Arnold Schoenberg Institute, a commission from the Koussevitzky Music Foundation for the Library of Congress, and a National Institute of Arts and Letters grant.

Melvin " Mel " Powell died at his home in Sherman Oaks, California on April 24, 1998, after a battle with liver cancer.

* G. Schirmer: Mel Powell Composer profile and work list

* Art of the States: Mel Powell Immobiles ( 1967 )

* Solfege, ear training, rhythm, dictation, and music theory: a comprehensive course / Marta Árkossy Ghezzo ; preface by Mel Powell.

* Mel Powell: Remembered by his students

* Mel Powell NPR obituary