Brigham Young University
Where was Crawford Gates educated in May 1946?
Crawford Gates Crawford Marion Gates ( December 29 , 1921 – June 9 , 2018 ) was an American musician , composer , and conductor known for his contributions to the body of music for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS Church ) . Early life and education . Gates was born in San Francisco , December 29 , 1921 , and grew up in Palo Alto , California . He started playing piano at age eight and violin at age nine . In his first year of college at the College of the Pacific and San Jose State , he won a student composition contest sponsored by the Stockton Symphony During his mission for the LDS Church , he directed the Mormon Male Chorus of Philadelphia , a group of eight other missionaries . The chorus performed for local radio stations , including WFIL . Gates wrote forty-three arrangements for the choir . Gates received a BA with great distinction from San Jose State University in 1943 . From September 1944 until August 1945 he was stationed in Pearl Harbor but never sent into combat . He studied for his MA from Brigham Young University from 1946 to 1948 , studying there with Leroy Robertson . Gates earned his Ph.D . from the Eastman School of Music under Howard Hanson in 1954 . He studied there from 1948 to 1950 , and returned to study in the summers of 1951 and 1954 . Music career . College teaching . He was a member of the music faculty at Brigham Young University during the summers of 1948 to 1960 , full-time from 1950 to 1966 . He conducted the chorus there from 1950 to 1958 . He was the chair of BYU’s music department from 1960 to 1966 , and conducted the BYU Symphony 1964 to 1966 . Gates was a professor of music and artist in residence at Beloit College in Wisconsin from 1966 to 1989 . From 1982 to 1987 he was the Chair of Music at Beloit College . After his retirement from Beloit College in 1989 , he continued his work as an emeritus artist-in-residence . Conducting . Gates was the music director of the Beloit-Janesville Symphony Orchestra for 34 years ( 1963–1964 , 1966–1999 ) , where he prepared orchestral and orchestral-choral arrangements for annual pops and children’s concerts . He was the music director of the Quincy Symphony from 1969 to 1970 and of the Rockford Symphony Orchestra from 1970 to 1986 . While conducting the Rockford Symphony Orchestra , he professionalized the orchestra . He guest conducted for the Utah Symphony twenty-five times . At Tanglewood in 1957 , Gates studied orchestral conducting with Eleazar de Carvalho . In the summer of 1967 , he studied conducting with Hans Swarowsky . Composing . Since age eight , Gates has composed or arranged nearly 900 titles . His works have been performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra , the Chicago Symphony Orchestra , the Los Angeles Philharmonic and orchestras in Dallas , Kansas City , Rochester and Milwaukee . Gates has had musical relationships ( guest conducting , recording , commissioned compositions and premieres ) with five major musical organizations in Utah : the Utah Symphony , the Mormon Tabernacle Choir , the Orchestra at Temple Square , Ballet West , the Utah Opera and the Oratorio Society of Utah . He wrote the music score to the play Promised Valley ( 1947 ) , celebrating the centennial entrance of Mormon pioneers into the Salt Lake Valley . This stage work has been produced over 2,700 times , in six languages and on five continents . He composed and orchestrated the score from January until July 22 , 1947 , just before the first performance . The first performances were produced in the University of Utah stadium , which held 12,500 people at the time . Gates is most known for his works with religious themes . In 1953 , Harold Hansen , the director of the pageant , asked Gates to write an original score for the Hill Cumorah Pageant . This church assignment was approved by the first presidency of the LDS Church . His teaching schedule and local church service did not leave him much time to compose , so the score was not complete until 1957 . During this time , he studied composition with Ernst Toch at UCLA in 1954 . After having difficulty composing the Christ theme for the Hill Cumorah Pageant , he received a blessing from Harold B . Lee , which told him he would hear the music in the night . After hearing the music in a dream , Gates composed what he felt was the right theme . In 1987 , Gates started composing a new score for Orson Scott Cards new script for the Hill Cumorah Pageant . Gates conducted the Mormon Tabernacle Choir , Utah Symphony Orchestra , and Salt Lake Childrens choir to make a recording of the new score to use in rehearsals . He composed two hymns in the LDS hymn book : Our Savior’s Love and Ring Out , Wild Bells , and wrote the music for two hymns in the LDS Childrens Songbook : On a Golden Springtime and Baptism . In 1976 , Gates premiered his Symphony No . 4 : A New Morning based on a text by Carol Lynn Pearson , for the United States Bicentennial . Milton Barlow commissioned Gates to write the ballet Desert As A Rose for Utahs statehood centennial in 1996 . Gates collaborated with William Auld to write an Esperanto hymn , which premiered at the 76th Universala Kongreso in 1991 . Claudia Bushman , Gatess sister-in-law , encouraged him to write an opera on Joseph Smith . Gates wrote Joseph ! Joseph! , which was performed in 2004 and 2005 . Awards and legacy . In 1955 , Gates won the Max Wald Memorial Funds first composition competition for his Symphony No.1 , written for his doctoral dissertation . Gatess works have won the American Society of Composers , Authors and Publishers ( ASCAP ) every year from 1967 to 1989 . In 1997 , Gates received a Governors Commendation from Tommy Thompson for his musical service in southern Wisconsin . In 1998 , he received a Rotary Club Service Above Self award . In 2010 , the instrumental qualities of Gatess choral arrangements were the subject of a doctoral dissertation by Matthew Thompson at Kansas University . Personal life . Crawford Gates married Georgia Lauper on December 19 , 1952 . They had four children . Crawford and Georgia moved to Salt Lake City in 1999 . Gates died June 9 , 2018 at the age of 96 . In other media . Gates appears together with Gordon B . Hinckley and two other Latter-day Saint missionaries who visit the protagonists of the 2019 film The Fighting Preacher in order to tour the Sacred Grove on their ways home from missionary service . In fact , Gatess mission occurred seven years after Hinckleys , and concluded after the family he visits in the film had returned home . The Gates role is portrayed by Joseph Skousen .