Durham, Lowell M.
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1917 - 1992
Biographical History
Citation:
UPB Files, MSS 8150, February 1, 2013 (born on March 4, 1917 to George H. Durham and Nellie Marsden; 1941, he received his Bachelor's degree from the University of Utah, married Betty Dee Divers on April 26, 1941; received a Master's degree from the University of Iowa in 1942, and a Ph.D. from there in 1945; post-doctoral work was completed at Columbia University and NYU; returned to the University of Utah in 1946 as a faculty member; served in executive positions on the Music Critics Association and the American Musicological Society; music critic for the Salt Lake Tribune; musical director of KSL; Dean of the College of Fine Arts at the University of Utah in 1955; retired in 1964; had three children: Lowell M., Jr., Susan, and Thomas L. Durham.)Ancestry.com, February 19, 2013 (Lowell M. Durham, b. 1917). (Durham died on November 10, 1992 in Salt Lake City; born March 4, 1917 in Utah.)
AncientFaces.com, February 19, 2013 (Lowell M. Durham). (born in Utah March 4, 1917.)
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Lowell M. Durham papers on Utah musicians, 1940-1991
Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 8150 Series 2
Scope and Contents
Contains files on Durham's colleagues. Includes documents on people like Maurice Abravanel, Crawford Gates, Jay Welch, Varujan Kojian, and Leroy Robertson. A variety of materials are included, such as newspaper clippings of reviews of the works done by these people, notes on their careers, even some correspondence. Includes materials related to the creation of the Leroy Robertson Foundation and the publication of the book on Maurice Abravanel. Some of these relate to the Utah Symphony and...
Dates:
1940-1991
Filtered By
- Subject: Composers -- Utah X