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Parks Grant
2+ albums
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Notes from 1955 bio provided by the composer: Faculty member at Temple University, Philadelphia, 1947 to 1951; Guest at Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY, July to September 1949; Music librarian at Free Library of Philadelphia, 1951-1952; Faculty member at Sacramento State College, Sacramento, CA, summer 1952; Faculty member at Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO, summer 1953; Faculty at University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS, from 1953 - 1973. Elected secretary-treasurer of the Mississippi Music Teacher's Association at the time of its founding, Feb. 5, 1955. Author of a book, Music for Elementary Teachers was published in the fall of 1951 by Appleton-Century-Crofts, used in over 200 colleges and universities. Lynda Aldana (excerpt from article in Breve Notes, No. 59, April 2000): William Parks Grant was a composer, scholar and music educator. He was born in 1910 in Columbus, Ohio. He received his terminal degree from the Eastman School of Music in 1948. His teachers at Eastman included Howard Hanson and Harold Gleason. By the time Parks Grant arrived at the University of Mississippi as a faculty member in music education, he was already a prolific composer. Also, he had just authored his book, Music for Elementary Teachers, which was a major contribution to the field of music education. During his tenure at the University, Grant had less and less time to devote to composing, as more of his time was increasingly taken by his Mahler scholarship. In 1964, Parks Grant beg
