<P> Robert Edward Jager (born August 25, 1939) is an American composer, music theorist and a conductor . His works are played throughout the world by various orchestras, bands, choruses and chamber ensembles . </P> <P> Jager was born in Binghamton, New York on August 25, 1939 . From 1962 to 1965 he was arranger / composer for the US - Navy Armed Forces School of Music . He completed his studies and graduated from the University of Michigan in 1968 . He then went on to be the lecturer in composition and directing at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia . In 1971, he left Old Dominion University to become a professor at Tennessee Technological University in Cookeville, TN from which he retired in 2001 . </P>

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