Dick Connette

Composer and producer. Under his pseudonym of A. Leroy, he operated Leroy Sound in New York. Dick Connette went to Harvard in the 1969 to study mathematics and, despite a lack of training, switched to studying music there instead. After graduation under the pseudonym A. Leroy, he ran a recording studio and collaborated as a musician and composer with a variety of artists. He pursued a career of composing modern classical music, going at it with a mathematician's cerebral precision, even plotting out compositions on graph paper.