The composer Leo Ornstein died at the age of 108. Here is all you want to know, and more!
Biography - A Short Wiki
Early 20th-century experimental musician of innovative, shocking compositions. He championed avant-garde composers.
He died when he was 108 and was survived by a daughter, a son, five grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren.
Quotes
"Now, what we are not talking about, what you’re really coming to, is what compromises one makes so that the listener understands somewhat of what you’re doing, what you’re trying to express.
"By the visual pattern, but mostly I’m guided entirely by my ear, what I hear.
"To the person that deals in visualizations, I suppose there is something rather exciting about a whole set of people – they all going symmetrically, up or down, in a military sort of precision.
"In writing music, the structure of each piece is a very important factor.
"Because essentially Schoenberg was an extremely gifted man. And in spite of many of his theories and so on, when he really began to write music, he still was guided very much by his internal hearing, by what we call your internal ear.