Bass, Claude Leroy 31.oct.1935- USA Texas, Gainesville
1957 BM from Oklahoma Baptist University, 1960 MM with Violet Archer from the University of Oklahoma, 1972 PhD with Samuel Adler from North Texas State University, 1957-1965 high school music teacher, 1965-1977 professor of music at Oklahoma Baptist University, 1977 at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Forth Worth Texas