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Began schooling in Marblehead Massachusetts
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Marblehead Junior High School
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Marblehead High School (departed after junior year)
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New School for Social Research, NYC; early-admission program replacing High School senior year
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Departed U Chicago, return to Massachusetts and the building trades
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Required transfer from New School; admitted Harvard, Brown, University of Chicago. Opted for Chicago as they provided the most transfer credit.
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Return to U Mass Boston to complete undergraduate degree (music)
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Entered Indiana University Bloomington program as MM Jazz candidate
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Completed MM (Jazz), began PhD (Musicology) at Indiana
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Graduated Indiana University, PhD (Musicology), Summa cum laude