YSM composer wins Grammy Award

Robert Aldridge ’97MMA, ’00DMA won a Grammy Award for "Best Contemporary Classical Composition" at the 54th Annual Grammy Awards ceremony last Sunday in Los Angeles. Aldridge is a professor at the John J. Cali School of Music at Montclair State University. Along with librettist Herschel Garfein (also of Montclair State), he was awarded the Grammy for Best Contemporary Classical Composition for the opera Elmer Gantry.