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Renée Levine Packer was administrator with Lukas Foss and Allen Sapp and codirector with Jan Williams and Morton Feldman of the Center of the Creative and Performing Arts at SUNY Buffalo, and a director of the Contemporary Music Festival at the California Institute of the Arts. She has been director of the Inter-Arts program at the National Endowment for the Arts, the producer of Steve Reich and Beryl Korot‘s multimedia opera The Cave, and a dean at the Maryland Institute College of Art. This Life of Sounds received ASCAP’s Deems Taylor Award for excellence. Her recent book with co-editor Mary Jane Leach, Gay Guerrilla: Julius Eastman and His Music was published in 2015 by the University of Rochester Press.