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Charles Faulkner Bryan, born July 26, 1911 in McMinnville, at the age of 19 Bryan entered the Nashville Conservatory of Music. While in Nashville, he started the Nashville Junior Concert Orchestra and conducted the Nashville Philharmonic Orchestra. He received his bachelor’s degree in music in 1934 and was invited to become the head of the music department at the Tennessee Polytechnic Institute (now Tennessee Technological University). He stayed there for four years, and they later named the Bryan Fine Arts Building on TTU’s campus after him. After WWII, Bryan accepted a one-year Guggenheim Fellowship at Yale University under Paul Hindemith, which he composed his most famous musical work, the Bell Witch Cantata, which premiered at Carnegie Hall on April 14, 1947.  

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