Billy Jim Layton 4G will be among twenty American authors, artists, and composers honored by the National Institute and American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York today.
A cash award of $1500 is attached to these citations by the two institutes. Layton is a composer of orchestral, choral and chamber music. He was graduated from the New England Conservatory of Music and has since studied at the American Academy in Rome, under a three-year fellowship.
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