'From Sesame Street to Invasion of the Body Snatchers and beyond, he’s been evolving for more than 60 years.' | Steve Krakow
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“When I graduated high school in 1956, I left Highland Park, a relatively cloistered upper middle-class suburb of Chicago, and headed down to the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana,” he said in a, the blog of music writer Marc Myers. “My primary goal was to get into medical school. While the University of Illinois’s undergrad, pre-med curriculum was fixed, I also wanted to make the most of a liberal arts opportunity.
Zeitlin joined the fraternity Zeta Beta Tau, which led to one of his best-known songs, “Quiet Now.” At the university, fraternities and sororities would pair up to write and perform 20- to 30-minutes musical-theater productions called “stunt shows,” and pressure naturally fell on him to contribute compositions. “There was a lot of support from the music school,” Zeitlin said. “They provided a high-quality band and help with orchestration when needed.
Also in 1964, Zeitlin headed to San Francisco to intern at the University of California San Francisco, where he later began a psychiatric residency. That same year he recorded his first two Columbia albums as a bandleader: the postbop voyageShining Hour: Live at the TridentZeitgeistJazz critic Ted Gioia had high praise for Zeitlin’s Columbia output.
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