1922- . US composer and conductor. He wrote
the cantata The Prairie 1942 and Time Cycle
for soprano and orchestra 1960. Born in
Germany, he studied in Europe before settling
in the USA in 1937. A student of Hindemith,
his vocal music is composed in Neo-Classical
style; in the mid-1950s he began increasingly
to employ improvisation. Foss has also
written chamber and orchestral music in which
the players reproduce tape-recorded effects.