Education
He graduated from Menominee, Wisconsin High School, and later the University of Wisconsin in 1907.
He graduated from Menominee, Wisconsin High School, and later the University of Wisconsin in 1907.
He later became a vocal coach. He competed in the early twentieth century. After his college graduation, Waller moved to Chicago.
In Chicago he knew William T Purdy and Carl Beck, who together wrote the University of Wisconsin fight song "On Wisconsin." Waller told Purdy about a contest and $100 prize to write a University of Minnesota fight song.
Carl Beck convinced Purdy it should be presented to the University of Wisconsin as their fight song. He went on tour with the singer Lillian Russell as her pianist.
He spent several years in Germany conducting at provincial opera houses. He later served as a voice coach and headed the voice department at the Kansas City Conservatory of Music.
During his career, he served as director of the Tri-City Symphony, Milwaukee Philarmonic Orchestra, the National Broadcasting Company in New York, and the World Pet Association Orchestra in Richmond, Virginia.
Among the singers he coached were Charles Sears, Edith Mason, Rosa Raisa, Alice Nielsen, Luisa Tetrazzini, Frances Peralta, and Olga Blani. He died of a heart ailment after six weeks of illness at the hospital. Personal Bests: 440y – 49.6 (1905).
400H – 53.6 (1904).