Musical Career
Owen is also a composer, and he has "dabbled in music all his life". He studied piano as a child and again once he finished law school. He studied composition with Vittorio Giannini and Robert Starer. His opera Abagail Adams, based on the lives of the second president and his wife, was first produced in 1987. Five of his art songs were published by the General Music Publishing Company between 1962 and 1973; they are known for their declamation and dramatic qualities.
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