Career
As a performer, he had been a bassoonist with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra (1917–1918 season), the Chicago Philharmonic Orchestra (1st bassoon), and later, the Bachman Woodwind Ensemble. As an educator, he taught mostly in the Chicago area, teaching out of his own studio and through affiliations with the Maywood extension of the Chicago Conservatory of Music. He also taught at Yale University and through affiliations with August Bucci (1897–1935), William Johnson of Valparaiso, Indiana, and the Valpo Music House (serving Valparaiso and Porter County).
In addition to being a bassoon virtuoso, Fields was proficient on other reed instruments, namely clarinet, saxophone, and oboe.
He taught all the woodwind reed instruments. Bachman Woodwind Ensemble During the 1930s, the group played concerts and gave music clinics for high schools and Universities in Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.
Its members were: Frank Hale Phares (1902–1961), flute Joseph Olivadoti (1893–1977), oboe Gabriel Tose (1907–1984), clarinet Dall Fields, bassoon Earl East. Stricker (1902–1989), French horn Harry Sukman (1912–1984), piano Faculty positions From 1946 to 1950, Fields was an instructor of woodwinds at the Author Jordan Conservatory of Music. In 1947, Fields was Instructor of Applied Music at Ball State University.
In 1948, he was on the music faculty of the Indiana State University College of Music.
Also, in 1948, he gave private woodwind lessons at Hobart High School. Fields served during World War I in the United States. Navy from December 1917 to September 1921. He was assigned as a clarinetist aboard the United States Ship Henderson (Associated Press-1), a hospital ship.
Dall Fields was married to Martel Fields (born 1895).
He died August 17, 1956, and was buried at Memorial Gardens Cemetery, Plymouth, Indiana. Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, Gamma Omega Chapter, Indiana State University.
