MCCOY, EARL E.

Earl Elleson McCoy lived a comparatively brief but musically rewarding life. He composed his most famous march Lights Out when he was eighteen, conducted theater orchestras throughout the United States, and helped to found the Dallas and El Paso Symphony Orchestras, as well as the Dallas Band. He also conducted the orchestra at radio station WFAA in Dallas. When he died of tuberculosis, at the age of forty-nine, all three organizations participated in his funeral services in El Paso and...