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He worked as a jazz musician, performing and recording within that genre, while simultaneously developing a sustained engagement with composition and musicology.\n\nPowell's commitment to music education extended over forty years and across several institutions, including Mannes College of Music, Queens College, and the California Institute of the Arts. At CalArts, he served as the founding dean of the music department, a role that placed him at the center of building a new institutional framework for music study in California. He died in Sherman Oaks on April 24, 1998, having spent much of his later life on the West Coast.\n\nThe honors Powell received reflect the range of his contributions. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Arts and Letters Award in Music, recognitions that acknowledged his work as both composer and educator. Most significantly, he received the Pulitzer Prize for Music, one of the field's highest distinctions. 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