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title: "3 Jon Appleton Quotes - Famous Composer"
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# Jon Appleton

(1939–2022)   Composer

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Jon Appleton was a composer.

## Quick Facts About Jon Appleton

Born January 4, 1939

Died January 30, 2022

Profession Composer

## About Jon Appleton

American composer (1939–2022)... \| Jon Howard Appleton was an American composer, an educator and a pioneer in electro-acoustic music. His earliest compositions in the medium, e.g. "Chef d'Oeuvre" and "Newark Airport Rock" (1967) attracted attention because they established a new tradition some have called programmatic electronic musi

##  Quotes by Jon Appleton

> [The pressure to give A grades is intense. It comes from the students and increasingly from their parents as well.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-appleton/the-pressure-to-give-a-grades-is-intense-it-comes-from-the-students/)

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[Education](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/education/)

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> [Dartmouth is the place I've devoted my life to, so it's very sad to see this kind of decline in the intellectual…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-appleton/dartmouth-is-the-place-i-ve-devoted-my-life-to-so-it-s-very-sad-to/)

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[Dartmouth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dartmouth/)

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> [Nowadays, all students have access to and indeed most own computers and are comfortable with the software used to compose music. There…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-appleton/nowadays-all-students-have-access-to-and-indeed-most-own-computers/)

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[Access](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/access/)

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