Albert Oliver Davis
Albert Oliver Davis (1920 - 2004) received his bachelor of education in 1943 and began his teaching career that same year as a band director in Tombstone, AZ. He went on to receive his master's degree from Arizona Sate Univeristy in 1951 and directed various high school bands around the state. His final position was band director and chair of the music department at Phoenix College, from which he retired in 1982. Davis was a noted arranger and transcriber of many concert band works, including Richard Strauss's Allerseelen and Tchaikovsky's Chanson Triste.
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