{"id":2169,"date":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2169"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"simmons, otis davis, 1928-  ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2169","title":{"rendered":"SIMMONS, OTIS DAVIS, 1928-"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Singer, educator.  Born&#8211;  Apr. 27, 1928 in Kansas City, Kan.  Parents&#8211;  Jesse and  Nannie (Bell) Simmons.  Married&#8211;  Willetta Moore on June 5, 1955.  Children&#8211;  One.  Education&#8211;  University of Kansas,  B.M.E, M.M.F, Ph.D.; studied with several vocal coaches.  U.S. Army 1949-1953; taught Philander Smith College 1955-1958, Texas Southern University 1958-1960; Southern University 1965-1966 and at Alabama State University after 1966, where he was chairman of music division and dean of College of Arts; performed with Houston Summer Symphony and with Kansas City Philharmonic Male Chorus. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Contemporary Authors, Vol. 57; Who&#8217;s Who in the South and Southwest, 1976.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Foundation Course in Musicianship.  Dubuque, Iowa;  W. C. Brown Co., 1967.  <\/p>\n<p>     Teaching Music in Urban Schools.  Boston;  Crescendo, 1975. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Singer, educator. Born&#8211; Apr. 27, 1928 in Kansas City, Kan. Parents&#8211; Jesse and Nannie (Bell) Simmons. Married&#8211; Willetta Moore on June 5, 1955. Children&#8211; One. Education&#8211; University of Kansas, B.M.E, M.M.F, Ph.D.; studied with several vocal coaches. U.S. Army 1949-1953; taught Philander Smith College 1955-1958, Texas Southern University 1958-1960; Southern University 1965-1966 and at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-p-s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}