Composer, conductor, music educator...H OWEN REED has died at 103 years of age

H. Owen Reed died at Arbor Terrace, in Athens, Georgia on Monday, January 6, 2014. OBIT. He was born in Odessa, Missouri on June 17, 1910.

If you ever played a musical instrument and were involved in a concert band ensemble, chances are you’ve performed his highly accessible and engaging music. Herbert Owen Reed a native of the American Midwest – born in 1910 and raised in Missouri not far from Kansas City. His family had musical interests; his father was a country fiddler and his mother played the piano.  
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Feb, 2003 Composer, G Steinke, MUSIClassical, editor, RACampbell, with H. O. Reed

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