NORTH ADAMS

Composer: Waldo S. Pratt

Pratt, Waldo Selden. (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 10, 1857--July 29, 1939, Hartford, Connecticut). Williams College, A.B. 1878, graduate study at Johns Hopkins University in classical archaeology and esthetics. He was largely self-taught in music. He was assistant director of the New York Metropolitan Museum, 1880-1882, and then joined the faculty of the Hartford Theological Seminary where he spent the rest of his life, teaching hymnology, music, public worship and allied subjects. Over the years he lectured at Trinity College, Smith College, Mount Holyoke College, and the Institute of Musical Art, New York. He was president of the Music Teachers National Association, 1906-1908, editor of its Proceedings, 1906-1915. He was award… Go to person page >