Crawford Marion Gates 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.
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28 Facts About Crawford Gates
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Crawford Gates started playing piano at age eight and violin at age nine.
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Crawford Gates received a BA "with great distinction" from San Jose State University in 1943.
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Crawford Gates studied for his MA from Brigham Young University from 1946 to 1948, studying there with Leroy Robertson.
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Crawford Gates studied there from 1948 to 1950, and returned to study in the summers of 1951 and 1954.
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Crawford Gates was a member of the music faculty at Brigham Young University during the summers of 1948 to 1960, full-time from 1950 to 1966.
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Crawford Gates was the chair of BYU's music department from 1960 to 1966, and conducted the BYU Symphony 1964 to 1966.
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Crawford Gates was a professor of music and artist in residence at Beloit College in Wisconsin from 1966 to 1989.
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Crawford Gates was the music director of the Beloit-Janesville Symphony Orchestra for 34 years, where he prepared orchestral and orchestral-choral arrangements for annual pops and children's concerts.
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Crawford Gates was the music director of the Quincy Symphony from 1969 to 1970 and of the Rockford Symphony Orchestra from 1970 to 1986.
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Crawford Gates guest conducted for the Utah Symphony twenty-five times.
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At Tanglewood in 1957, Crawford Gates studied orchestral conducting with Eleazar de Carvalho.
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Crawford Gates's 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.
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Crawford Gates has had musical relationships 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.
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Crawford Gates wrote the music score to the play Promised Valley, celebrating the centennial entrance of Mormon pioneers into the Salt Lake Valley.
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Crawford Gates composed and orchestrated the score from January until July 22,1947, just before the first performance.
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In 1953, Harold Hansen, the director of the pageant, asked Crawford Gates to write an original score for the Hill Cumorah Pageant.
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Crawford Gates's teaching schedule and local church service did not leave him much time to compose, so the score was not complete until 1957.
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In 1987, Crawford Gates started composing a new score for Orson Scott Card's new script for the Hill Cumorah Pageant.
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Crawford Gates conducted the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Utah Symphony Orchestra, and Salt Lake Children's choir to make a recording of the new score to use in rehearsals.
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In 1976, Crawford Gates premiered his Symphony No 4: A New Morning based on a text by Carol Lynn Pearson, for the United States Bicentennial.
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Milton Barlow commissioned Crawford Gates to write the ballet Desert As A Rose for Utah's statehood centennial in 1996.
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Claudia Bushman, Crawford Gates's sister-in-law, encouraged him to write an opera on Joseph Smith.
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In 1955, Crawford Gates won the Max Wald Memorial Fund's first composition competition for his Symphony No 1, written for his doctoral dissertation.
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Crawford Gates's works have won the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers every year from 1967 to 1989.
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In 1997, Crawford Gates received a Governor's Commendation from Tommy Thompson for his musical service in southern Wisconsin.
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Crawford Gates's mission occurred seven years after Hinckley's, and concluded after the family he visits in the film had returned home.
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