Easley Blackwood Jr. as "Introducing Easley Blackwood". His father, Easley Blackwood Sr., was a noted contract bridge player and writer. Easley Blackwood Jr. Easley Blackwood (born April 21, 1933) is an American professor of music, a concert pianist, a composer of music, some using unusual tunings, and the author of books on music theory, including his research into the properties of microtonal tunings and traditional harmony. Blackwood was born in Indianapolis, Indiana. He studied piano there and was doing solo appearances at the age of 14 with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. After studies at many places (including Yale University, where he earned his
F. E. J. Fry F. E. J. Fry Frederick Ernest Joseph Fry (April 17, 1908 – May 22, 1989), commonly known as F. E. J. Fry, was a Canadian ichthyologist and aquatic ecologist. He is known for his early research in physiological ecology and population dynamics in fishes. In the late 1940s, he became the first scientist to model how environmental factors affect the activity of fish. He was a 1959 Guggenheim Fellow, and served as president of several organizations including the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography (1951) American Fisheries Society (1966) and American Institute of Fishery Research Biologists (1972). Fry was born