“Robert Strassburg was born in New York, but spent a good part of his active musical life in the Los Angeles area. His educational pedigree is impressive. He studied with Stravinsky, Piston, and Hindemith, the last named at Tanglewood. From 1943 on, he served on the faculties of a number of music schools and universities. He also established and directed the Roy Harris Archives and published a catalog of Harris’s works. Strassburg’s activities as a composer have been nearly equally divided between sacred and secular works.”

–Jerry Dubins, Fanfare