Background
Haines, Edmund Thomas was born on December 15, 1914 in Ottumwa, Iowa, United States. Son of Verlan J. and Edna May (Waters) Haines.
Haines, Edmund Thomas was born on December 15, 1914 in Ottumwa, Iowa, United States. Son of Verlan J. and Edna May (Waters) Haines.
Student of University Kansas, 1933-1934. B.M., Kansas City Conservatory of Music, 1936. M.M., Eastman School of Music, U. Rochester, 1938, Doctor of Philosophy, 1941.
1 son, David; married 3d, Lauren Levey, March 30, 1970. Teacher piano and theory Conservatory of Kansas City, 1936-1937. Teaching fellow and graduate student Eastman School, 1938-1941.
Appointed to faculty University of Michigan, 1941, Sarah Lawrence College, 1948.
Guggenheim fellow, 1956-1957, 57-58. Ford Foundation orchestral commission, 1958.
Composer-in-residence Louisiana Napoule Art Foundation, France, 1957-1958. Fulbright research grant, Spain, 1965-1967.
Married Joyce Williams, August 27, 1939 (divorced). Married second, Beatrice Thorne, June 2, 1951 (divorced). Married 3d, Lauren Levey, March 30, 1970.