Louis Ballard

Louis Ballard (born July 8, 1931, near Quapaw, Oklahoma, U.S.—died February 9, 2007, Santa Fe, New Mexico) was an American composer and music educator best known for compositions that synthesize elements of Native American and Western classical music. Ballard experienced—and indeed oscillated between—Native American and Western (or Euro-American) musical worlds from an early age. His Quapaw mother and Cherokee father divorced when he was a young boy, after which Ballard lived alternately with his grandmother...