A. Leroy

Composer and producer who 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.