A talented composer, Mark learned piano from Stravinsky’s son, played with Sara Vaughn and conducted the LA Philharmonic Strings and the Houston Symphony in his own compositions. He learned film scoring from Albert Harris (favorite modern composer of Andres Segovia and Laurindo Almeida.) A few years later he worked with Moacir Santos, coming to national attention shortly thereafter as El Lejano with his song ‘Dreamin’ produced by Rick Jarrard (Jose Feliciano-Light My Fire, Harry Nilsson-Every...