Mannes

Tetelman moved on to the Mannes School of Music for a graduate program where he was told his upper register was his future but struggled with even audition standards.

After a stint in the Army, he resumed his classes at the Mannes School of Music and the New School for Social Research in New York, where he was mentored by French composer Darius Milhaud.

He later studied under French classical composer Darius Milhaud at the Mannes School of Music in New York.

Composers Collective informally came together more than a year ago to support victims of discrimination in the small, rarefied world of academic music composition, said one member, Missy Mazzoli, a composer and faculty member at the Mannes School of Music and at Bard College.

“Classical music as a whole tends to be a step or two behind the larger culture when it comes to both political and aesthetic issues,” said Timo Andres, a composer, pianist and Mannes faculty member who signed the open letter about Beaser.