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Mark Fax was born on 15 June, 1911 in Baltimore, Maryland, is an American composer and professor of music. Discover Mark Fax's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 63 years old?

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Occupation Composer, Educator
Age 63 years old
Zodiac Sign Gemini
Born 15 June, 1911
Birthday 15 June
Birthplace Baltimore, Maryland
Date of death 1974
Died Place Washington, DC
Nationality United States

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1911

Mark Oakland Fax (15 June 1911 – 2 January 1974) was an American composer and a professor of music.

Born on June 15, 1911, in Baltimore, Maryland, Fax was a child prodigy.

By age fourteen, Fax was employed as a theater organist playing scores to silent films in Baltimore's Regent Theater on Saturdays, and gospel music at an African American church on Sundays.

Fax enrolled at Syracuse University on the advice of his brother, Elton Fax, an artist, who believed Syracuse faculty would take his aspirations as a classical composer seriously.

Mark studied at Syracuse University where he earned a B.Mus.

1933

in 1933, then at Eastman earning a Master's degree in composition.

While at Eastman he studied with Howard Hanson.

He completed his bachelor's of music degree with honours; won the prestigious Julius Rosenwald Fellowship in a national competition; and was elected to the All-University Honour Society.

Depression-era conditions compelled him to turn down graduate fellowship offers, and he accepted a position at Paine College in Georgia, where he founded and chaired the music department.

1934

Fax also taught music at Paine College a (1934-1942),.

1942

in 1942 Mark studied piano at Bennington College in Vermont.

It was here that he wrote music for the Martha Graham Dance Troupe.

Feeling that he was stagnating artistically, he returned to Central New York in 1942 to study advanced composition at the Eastman School of Music.

To support his family, he served as both choirmaster and janitor at a Rochester church until he won a rare second Rosenwald Fellowship.

1946

He taught at Black Mountain College in 1946.

1947

From 1947 to 1972, Fax taught music theory at Howard University and served as director of the School of Music.

Later, Fax became Acting Dean of Howard's College of Fine Arts.

Concurrently, he served as music director at Washington's famed Asbury Methodist Church, where he acted as the music director, organist, and composer.

1958

Fax composed works for chorus, symphony, chamber ensemble, voice, piano and organ, in addition to two full-length operas, A Christmas Miracle (1958) and 'Til Victory Is Won (1967).

Though many of Fax's compositions are unpublished many had been preserved by his wife and reproduced in dissertation on his work by Velma Jones, titled "The Life and Works of Mark Oakland Fax."

In the Washington limelight, he finally received public attention.

Washington Post critic Paul Hume praised Fax's Sonata for Clarinet and Piano as "striking…difficult…a work of surprising contrapuntal texture" and declared the composer's oeuvre "music of rare power."

1967

'Til Victory is Won (1967), Fax's epic operatic history of the African American experience, was mounted at the Kennedy Center.

1974

Hume says of Fax's opera ""A strong and valid artistic pronouncement" upon the trials of the time it was written. Mark Fax died January 2, 1974, in Washington, DC.