Larry Polansky

Larry Polansky was a prolific composer, multi-instrumentalist, and educator who wrote and arranged many works for a variety of instrumentations. He was a core member of the Frog Peak Music composer's collective and a widely published music theorist who co-wrote HSML, or Hierarchical Music Specification Language, with Phil Burk and David Rosenboom, as well as other computer software. Polansky was born on October 16, 1954, in New York. His brother is author Steven Polansky. Larry attended the New College of Florida, where he studied with Ron Riddle. He then attended the Univers...