Former MTNA Executive Secretary Udell dies.Budd Udell, Executive Secretary of MTNA MTNA Music Teachers National Association MTNA Middle Tennessee Nursery Association (McMinnville, Tennessee) from 1974 to 1977, and well-known university music professor, died February 3, 2006, of complications from pulmonary fibrosis. He was 71. Udell was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan “Grand Rapids” redirects here. For other uses, see Grand Rapids (disambiguation). Grand Rapids is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 197,800. . Through the years, he served as composer and arranger with the U.S. Navy Band in Washington, D.C., director of bands at West Virginia University West Virginia University, mainly at Morgantown; coeducational; land-grant and state supported; est. and opened 1867 as an agricultural college, renamed 1868. and assistant dean of the University of Cincinnati The University of Cincinnati is a coeducational public research university in Cincinnati, Ohio. Ranked as one of America’s top 25 public research universities and in the top 50 of all American research universities,[2] College Conservatory of Music (CCM) before joining the faculty of the University of Florida University of Florida is the third-largest university in the United States, with 50,912 students (as of Fall 2006) and has the eighth-largest budget (nearly $1.9 billion per year). UF is home to 16 colleges and more than 150 research centers and institutes. , School of Music in 1977. At Florida, he served as chairman of what was then the department of music from 1977 to 1985, head of composition and music theory and director of graduate studies. He also spent a year as interim chair of the UF department of theatre and dance before retiring in 2002. Among Udell's compositions, the most recognizable might be "Florida Chimes," the tune that signals each quarter hour from the campus carillon in UF's Century Tower. Udell was also music director and conductor of the Gainesville Civic Chorus from 1981 to 1991 and again from 1996 to 2004. He held bachelor's and master's degrees in music from Indiana University, and his doctor's degree in composition from CCM. |
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