Houston Bright (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Houston Bright (1916-1970) was an American music composer. While he never received wide public acclaim, Houston Bright was, among his peers, well known and respected as a composer, choral director, and professor. He spent essentially his entire career in the Music Department of West Texas State College (now West Texas A&M University). Bright was born January 21, 1916, in Midland, Texas. He was the son of a Methodist minister. He attended high school in Shamrock, in the Texas Panhandle (although the 1938 WT yearbook showed his hometown to be Plainview). After graduating high school in 1932, he attended West Texas State. He organized a dance band, the "Kampus Katz," in the 1935-6 school year; the band played locally and also toured Texas, New Mexico, and Colorado during the following summer.