He spent 20 years on the faculty of VanderCook College of Music, and wrote over 200 marches and overtures, among other works.
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During that decade he began studying with members of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, such as Joseph Jarman and Chico Freeman, as well as at the Vandercook College of Music.
After graduating from the Vandercook College of Music in 1932, he began to teach at John Marshall High School, in Chicago, Illinois.