Clinton Elliott was born in New York City, attended Westminster School in Simsbury, Conn., and studied music at Yale University. He served in the U.S. Navy on a submarine chaser in...ver másClinton Elliott was born in New York City, attended Westminster School in Simsbury, Conn., and studied music at Yale University. He served in the U.S. Navy on a submarine chaser in the Pacific at the close of World War II. He graduated from Yale in 1949 and continued his studies in music composition in France with Nadia Boulanger and at Columbia University where he received an M.A. Elliott wrote numerous scores for documentary films for CBS and ABC, including Mr. Dickens of London, Hall of Kings and Rachel Carson’s The Sea Around Us. He also wrote for the pioneering television series Twentieth Century and Omnibus. His many choral pieces have been published by MCA and other publishing houses. He lives in the Berkshire Hills in Massachusetts and the Florida Keys.ver menos