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 Award-winning author and acclaimed composer Gary Lloyd Noland, also known by the pen name Dolly Gray Landon, was born in Seattle in 1957 and grew up on a plot of land three blocks south of UC Berkeley called People's Park, a hub of civil unrest. He studied music at UC Berkeley, the Boston Conservatory, and Harvard, earning a PhD in Music Composition in 1989. Noland's prolific catalogue includes piano, vocal, chamber, orchestral, and experimental works, as well as full-length plays and chamber novels. His award-winning, 77-hour-long gesamtkunstwerk JAGDLIED was named the number one book of 2018. His monumental 39 Variations on an Original Theme in F Major has been praised as a "titanic achievement" in the literature for solo piano. His most recent novel, "The At-Your-Beck Felicity Conveyor" won the LITERARY TITAN BOOK AWARD in December, 2024. |
