DYETT, WALTER HENRI

DYETT, WALTER HENRI. Bandmaster/Music educator (1 January 1901 in St. Joseph, Missouri; 17 November 1969 in Chicago, Illinois). He began piano study at the age of five with his mother. When he was eleven, his family moved to Pasadena, California, and he began violin study there with Hubert Parker, bandmaster of the local high school. He attended the University of California at Los Angeles in a pre-medicine program but also studied orchestral and band instruments there with a Professor...