ObituaryClyde Miller
Submitted on Friday, June 8, 2012
Clyde E. Miller, Denton, Professor Emeritus of music, died March 30. He was a College
of Music faculty member from 1955 to 1983, becoming the university’s first full-time
horn instructor in 1964. He served as principal horn in the Dallas Symphony Orchestra
from 1948 to 1964, and played with the Indianapolis Symphony, Vermont Symphony, Metropolitan
Opera and New York Philharmonic Orchestra among others, and for performances on Broadway,
Dallas Summer Musicals and Fort Worth’s Casa Mañana. He also taught at Butler Conservatory.Miller
earned a bachelor’s degree from Northwestern University and a master’s from Columbia
University. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II and, as a member of the
U.S. Army Band, played for ceremonies for Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry
S. Truman. Memorials may be made to the Endowed Clyde Miller Horn Scholarship at UNT.