Kohs, Ellis

Ellis B. Kohs, composer and teacher, born May 12, 1916, in Chicago. Kohs received his early musical training at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and studied with Olga Samarof Stokowski at the Juilliard School in New York City. He earned an M.A. degree at the University of Chicago (1938) and then attended Harvard University. During World War II, Kohs served in the U.S. Army as director of the all-African American 334th Army Forces Services Band, at Fort Benning (Georgia). After the war he taught at Wesleyan University (1946-1948) and the College of the Pacific (1938-1950), before joining the University of Southern California faculty in 1950. At USC, he served as chair of the department of theory and composition in the Thornton School of Music for more than 20 years. He died in Los Angeles on May 17, 2000.

From the description of Ellis B. Kohs papers, 1943-1946. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79463268

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