Fruitful and changeable composer and pianist, Lukas Foss, died at his home at the age of eighty six. Notwithstanding the fact that Lukas was an immigrant from Germany from the very beginning he was deemed as an essential person in the blossoming world of American composition. He protected the works of his colleagues. Mr. Foss liked to investigate the byways of avant-garde. He concentrated on different methods and digital music, as well as on minimalism and impromptu. While he used one style and another his voice remained distinguished. That was because he didn’t believed to rules and never stuck to those approaches he admitted.