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William L. Dawson Tribute
WILLIAM LEVI DAWSON
September 26, -- May 2,
William Levi Dawson was born in Anniston, Ala., the first of seven children born to George W. and Eliza Starkey Dawson. At the age of 13 he ran away from home to enter Tuskegee (Institute) University. He supported himself by manual labor, and was a member of Tuskegee’s band and orchestra. He completed his education at Tuskegee in
Dawson studied composition and orchestration with Henry V. Stearns at Washburn College in Topeka, Kan., and studied counterpoint with Sir Carl Busch in Kansas City, Mo. In he received a Bachelor of Music Degree in theory at the Horner Institute of Fine Arts in Kansas City, Mo. In Chicago, at the American Conservatory of Music, he studied composition with Adolph Weidig and was graduated in with a master’s degree in composition. Following his graduation, he studied with the distinguished composer and theorist Thorvald Otterstrom of Chicago.
Dawson held the position of first trombonist in the Chicago Civic Orchestra from to , Frederic Stock and Eric De Lamarter, conductors. He also won the Chicago Daily News contest for band directors in , and in won Wanamaker Contest prizes for song and orchestral compositions.
In , Dawson organized and headed the School of Music at Tuskegee
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William L. Dawson
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