Gordon Getty, the San Francisco businessman and award-winning classical-music composer, will soon have a playlist on Apple Music, alongside masters such as Johann Sebastian Bach and Amadeus Mozart.
Getty has also composed music for four decades, winning the American Symphony Orchestra League’s Gold Baton in 2003. The Kennedy Center named him as an Outstanding American Composer in 1986, and the San Francisco Opera gave him the Spirit of the Opera award last year. In 2021, Apple acquired Primephonic, a streaming service that Getty had previously invested in. Mirrashidi said that after the acquisition, the Apple team and Getty “began to get to know and appreciate each other.”
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